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A Scholar is musing on his want of success	A
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To strive and fail Yes I did strive and fail	B
I set mine eyes upon a certain night	C
To find a certain star and could not hail	B
With them its deep set light	C
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Fool that I was I will rehearse my fault	D
I wingless thought myself on high to lift	E
Among the winged I set these feet that halt	D
To run against the swift	E
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And yet this man that loved me so can write	C
That loves me I would say can let me see	F
Or fain would have me think he counts but light	C
These Honors lost to me	F
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The letter of his friend	G
What are they that old house of yours which gave	H
Such welcome oft to me the sunbeams fall	I
Yet down the squares of blue and white which pave	H
Its hospitable hall	I
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A brave old house a garden full of bees	J
Large dropping poppies and Queen hollyhocks	K
With butterflies for crowns tree peonies	J
And pinks and goldilocks	L
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Go when the shadow of your house is long	M
Upon the garden when some new waked bird	N
Pecking and fluttering chirps a sudden song	M
And not a leaf is stirred	N
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But every one drops dew from either edge	O
Upon its fellow while an amber ray	P
Slants up among the tree tops like a wedge	O
Of liquid gold to play	P
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Over and under them and so to fall	I
Upon that lane of water lying below	Q
That piece of sky let in that you do call	I
A pond but which I know	Q
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To be a deep and wondrous world for I	R
Have seen the trees within it marvellous things	S
So thick no bird betwixt their leaves could fly	R
But she would smite her wings	S
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Go there I say stand at the water's brink	T
And shoals of spotted barbel you shall see	F
Basking between the shadows look and think	T
'This beauty is for me	F
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'For me this freshness in the morning hours	U
For me the water's clear tranquillity	N
For me the soft descent of chestnut flowers	U
The cushat's cry for me	F
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'The lovely laughter of the wind swayed wheat	N
The easy slope of yonder pastoral hill	V
The sedgy brook whereby the red kine meet	N
And wade and drink their fill '	-
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Then saunter down that terrace whence the sea	F
All fair with wing like sails you may discern	W
Be glad and say 'This beauty is for me	F
A thing to love and learn	W
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'For me the bounding in of tides for me	F
The laying bare of sands when they retreat	N
The purple flush of calms the sparkling glee	F
When waves and sunshine meet '	-
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So after gazing homeward turn and mount	N
To that long chamber in the roof there tell	X
Your heart the laid up lore it holds to count	N
And prize and ponder well	X
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The lookings onward of the race before	Y
It had a past to make it look behind	N
Its reverent wonder and its doubting sore	Y
Its adoration blind	N
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The thunder of its war songs and the glow	Q
Of chants to freedom by the old world sung	Z
The sweet love cadences that long ago	Q
Dropped from the old world tongue	Z
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And then this new world lore that takes account	N
Of tangled star dust maps the triple whirl	A2
Of blue and red and argent worlds that mount	N
And greet the IRISH EARL	A2
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Or float across the tube that HERSCHEL sways	B2
Like pale rose chaplets or like sapphire mist	N
Or hang or droop along the heavenly ways	B2
Like scarves of amethyst	N
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O strange it is and wide the new world lore	Y
For next it treateth of our native dust	N
Must dig out buried monsters and explore	Y
The green earth's fruitful crust	N
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Must write the story of her seething youth	C2
How lizards paddled in her lukewarm seas	J
Must show the cones she ripened and forsooth	C2
Count seasons on her trees	J
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Must know her weight and pry into her age	D2
Count her old beach lines by their tidal swell	X
Her sunken mountains name her craters gauge	D2
Her cold volcanoes tell	X
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And treat her as a ball that one might pass	E2
From this hand to the other such a ball	I
As he could measure with a blade of grass	E2
And say it was but small	I
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Honors O friend I pray you bear with me	F
The grass hath time to grow in meadow lands	F2
And leisurely the opal murmuring sea	F
Breaks on her yellow sands	F2
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And leisurely the ring dove on her nest	N
Broods till her tender chick will peck the shell	X
And leisurely down fall from ferny crest	N
The dew drops on the well	X
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And leisurely your life and spirit grew	G2
With yet the time to grow and ripen free	F
No judgment past withdraws that boon from you	G2
Nor granteth it to me	F
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Still must I plod and still in cities moil	X
From precious leisure learned leisure far	H2
Dull my best self with handling common soil	X
Yet mine those honors are	H2
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Mine they are called they are a name which means	I2
'This man had steady pulses tranquil nerves	J2
Here as in other fields the most he gleans	J2
Who works and never swerves	J2
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We measure not his mind we cannot tell	X
What lieth under over or beside	N
The test we put him to he doth excel	X
We know where he is tried	N
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But if he boast some farther excellence	J2
Mind to create as well as to attain	K2
To sway his peers by golden eloquence	J2
As wind doth shift a fane	K2
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'To sing among the poets we are nought	N
We cannot drop a line into that sea	J2
And read its fathoms off nor gauge a thought	N
Nor map a simile	X
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'It may be of all voices sublunar	H2
The only one he echoes we did try	H2
We may have come upon the only star	H2
That twinkles in his sky '	-
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And so it was with me	J2
O false my friend	N
False false a random charge a blame undue	N
Wrest not fair reasoning to a crooked end	N
False false as you are true	N
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But I read on And so it was with me	J2
Your golden constellations lying apart	N
They neither hailed nor greeted heartily	J2
Nor noted on their chart	N
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And yet to you and not to me belong	M
Those finer instincts that like second sight	N
And hearing catch creation's undersong	M
And see by inner light	N
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You are a well whereon I gazing see	J2
Reflections of the upper heavens a well	X
From whence come deep deep echoes up to me	J2
Some underwave's low swell	X
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I cannot soar into the heights you show	Q
Nor dive among the deeps that you reveal	X
But it is much that high things ARE to know	Q
That deep things ARE to feel	X
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'Tis yours not mine to pluck out of your breast	N
Some human truth whose workings recondite	N
Were unattired in words and manifest	N
And hold it forth to light	N
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And cry 'Behold this thing that I have found '	-
And though they knew not of it till that day	N
Nor should have done with no man to expound	N
Its meaning yet they say	N
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'We do accept it lower than the shoals	J2
We skim this diver went nor did create	N
But find it for us deeper in our souls	J2
Than we can penetrate '	-
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You were to me the world's interpreter	H2
The man that taught me Nature's unknown tongue	M
And to the notes of her wild dulcimer	H2
First set sweet words and sung	M
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And what am I to you A steady hand	N
To hold a steadfast heart to trust withal	X
Merely a man that loves you and will stand	N
By you whatever befall	X
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But need we praise his tendance tutelar	H2
Who feeds a flame that warms him Yet 'tis true	H2
I love you for the sake of what you are	H2
And not of what you do	H2
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As heaven's high twins whereof in Tyrian blue	H2
The one revolveth through his course immense	J2
Might love his fellow of the damask hue	H2
For like and difference	J2
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For different pathways evermore decreed	N
To intersect but not to interfere	H2
For common goal two aspects and one speed	N
One centre and one year	H2
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For deep affinities for drawings strong	M
That by their nature each must needs exert	N
For loved alliance and for union long	M
That stands before desert	N
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And yet desert makes brighter not the less	J2
For nearest his own star he shall not fail	X
To think those rays unmatched for nobleness	J2
That distance counts but pale	X
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Be pale afar since still to me you shine	L2
And must while Nature's eldest law shall hold	N
Ah there's the thought which makes his random line	L2
Dear as refin d gold	N
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Then shall I drink this draft of oxymel	X
Part sweet part sharp Myself o'erprized to know	Q
Is sharp the cause is sweet and truth to tell	X
Few would that cause forego	Q
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Which is that this of all the men on earth	C2
Doth love me well enough to count me great	N
To think my soul and his of equal girth	C2
O liberal estimate	N
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And yet it is so he is bound to me	J2
For human love makes aliens near of kin	M2
By it I rise there is equality	J2
I rise to thee my twin	M2
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Take courage courage ay my purple peer	H2
I will take courage for thy Tyrian rays	J2
Refresh me to the heart and strangely dear	H2
And healing is thy praise	J2
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Take courage quoth he and respect the mind	N
Your Maker gave for good your fate fulfil	X
The fate round many hearts your own to wind	N
Twin soul I will I will	X