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Lately alas I knew a gentle boy	A
Whose features all were cast in Virtue's mould	B
As one she had designed for Beauty's toy	A
But after manned him for her own strong hold	B
On every side he open was as day	C
That you might see no lack of strength within	D
For walls and ports do only serve alway	E
For a pretence to feebleness and sin	D
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Say not that C sar was victorious	F
With toil and strife who stormed the House of Fame	G
In other sense this youth was glorious	F
Himself a kingdom wheresoe'er he came	G
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No strength went out to get him victory	H
When all was income of its own accord	I
For where he went none other was to see	H
But all were parcel of their noble lord	I
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He forayed like the subtle breeze of summer	J
That stilly shows fresh landscapes to the eyes	K
And revolutions worked without a murmur	J
Or rustling of a leaf beneath the skies	K
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So was I taken unawares by this	L
I quite forgot my homage to confess	M
Yet now am forced to know though hard it is	N
I might have loved him had I loved him less	M
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Each moment as we nearer drew to each	O
A stern respect withheld us farther yet	P
So that we seemed beyond each other's reach	O
And less acquainted than when first we met	P
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We two were one while we did sympathize	K
So could we not the simplest bargain drive	Q
And what avails it now that we are wise	K
If absence doth this doubleness contrive	Q
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Eternity may not the chance repeat	R
But I must tread my single way alone	S
In sad remembrance that we once did meet	R
And know that bliss irrevocably gone	T
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The spheres henceforth my elegy shall sing	U
For elegy has other subject none	V
Each strain of music in my ears shall ring	U
Knell of departure from that other one	V
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Make haste and celebrate my tragedy	H
With fitting strain resound ye woods and fields	W
Sorrow is dearer in such case to me	H
Than all the joys other occasion yields	W
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Is't then too late the damage to repair	X
Distance forsooth from my weak grasp hath reft	H
The empty husk and clutched the useless tare	X
But in my hands the wheat and kernel left	H
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If I but love that virtue which he is	N
Though it be scented in the morning air	X
Still shall we be truest acquaintances	N
Nor mortals know a sympathy more rare	X

Henry David Thoreau

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