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WITH A COPY OF WOOLMAN'S JOURNAL	A
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Maiden with the fair brown tresses	B
Shading o'er thy dreamy eye	C
Floating on thy thoughtful forehead	D
Cloud wreaths of its sky	C
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Youthful years and maiden beauty	E
Joy with them should still abide	F
Instinct take the place of Duty	E
Love not Reason guide	F
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Ever in the New rejoicing	G
Kindly beckoning back the Old	H
Turning with the gift of Midas	I
All things into gold	H
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And the passing shades of sadness	I
Wearing even a welcome guise	J
As when some bright lake lies open	K
To the sunny skies	J
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Every wing of bird above it	L
Every light cloud floating on	M
Glitters like that flashing mirror	N
In the self same sun	K
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But upon thy youthful forehead	D
Something like a shadow lies	J
And a serious soul is looking	G
From thy earnest eyes	J
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With an early introversion	K
Through the forms of outward things	O
Seeking for the subtle essence	P
And the bidden springs	O
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Deeper than the gilded surface	I
Hath thy wakeful vision seen	K
Farther than the narrow present	Q
Have thy journeyings been	K
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Thou hast midst Life's empty noises	B
Heard the solemn steps of Time	R
And the low mysterious voices	S
Of another clime	R
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All the mystery of Being	G
Hath upon thy spirit pressed	T
Thoughts which like the Deluge wanderer	N
Find no place of rest	T
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That which mystic Plato pondered	U
That which Zeno heard with awe	V
And the star rapt Zoroaster	N
In his night watch saw	W
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From the doubt and darkness springing	G
Of the dim uncertain Past	X
Moving to the dark still shadows	Y
O'er the Future cast	X
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Early hath Life's mighty question	K
Thrilled within thy heart of youth	Z
With a deep and strong beseeching	G
What and where is Truth	Z
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Hollow creed and ceremonial	A
Whence the ancient life hath fled	D
Idle faith unknown to action	K
Dull and cold and dead	D
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Oracles whose wire worked meanings	O
Only wake a quiet scorn	K
Not from these thy seeking spirit	A2
Hath its answer drawn	K
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But like some tired child at even	K
On thy mother Nature's breast	T
Thou methinks art vainly seeking	G
Truth and peace and rest	T
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O'er that mother's rugged features	B2
Thou art throwing Fancy's veil	C2
Light and soft as woven moonbeams	D2
Beautiful and frail	C2
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O'er the rough chart of Existence	P
Rocks of sin and wastes of woe	E2
Soft airs breathe and green leaves tremble	A
And cool fountains flow	E2
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And to thee an answer cometh	F2
From the earth and from the sky	C
And to thee the hills and waters	B2
And the stars reply	C
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But a soul sufficing answer	N
Hath no outward origin	K
More than Nature's many voices	S
May be heard within	K
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Even as the great Augustine	K
Questioned earth and sea and sky	C
And the dusty tomes of learning	G
And old poesy	S
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But his earnest spirit needed	G2
More than outward Nature taught	H2
More than blest the poet's vision	K
Or the sage's thought	H2
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Only in the gathered silence	S
Of a calm and waiting frame	R
Light and wisdom as from Heaven	K
To the seeker came	R
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Not to ease and aimless quiet	A2
Doth that inward answer tend	I2
But to works of love and duty	E
As our being's end	I2
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Not to idle dreams and trances	S
Length of face and solemn tone	K
But to Faith in daily striving	G
And performance shown	K
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Earnest toil and strong endeavor	N
Of a spirit which within	K
Wrestles with familiar evil	A
And besetting sin	K
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And without with tireless vigor	N
Steady heart and weapon strong	J2
In the power of truth assailing	G
Every form of wrong	J2
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Guided thus how passing lovely	E
Is the track of Woolman's feet	K2
And his brief and simple record	L2
How serenely sweet	K2
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O'er life's humblest duties throwing	G
Light the earthling never knew	K
Freshening all its dark waste places	S
As with Hermon's dew	K
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All which glows in Pascal's pages	S
All which sainted Guion sought	H2
Or the blue eyed German Rahel	E
Half unconscious taught	H2
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Beauty such as Goethe pictured	U
Such as Shelley dreamed of shed	D
Living warmth and starry brightness	S
Round that poor man's head	D
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Not a vain and cold ideal	E
Not a poet's dream alone	K
But a presence warm and real	E
Seen and felt and known	K
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When the red right hand of slaughter	N
Moulders with the steel it swung	M2
When the name of seer and poet	A2
Dies on Memory's tongue	M2
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All bright thoughts and pure shall gather	N
Round that meek and suffering one	K
Glorious like the seer seen angel	E
Standing in the sun	K
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Take the good man's book and ponder	N
What its pages say to thee	E
Blessed as the hand of healing	G
May its lesson be	E
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If it only serves to strengthen	K
Yearnings for a higher good	N2
For the fount of living waters	S
And diviner food	O2
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If the pride of human reason	K
Feels its meek and still rebuke	P2
Quailing like the eye of Peter	N
From the Just One's look	Q2
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If with readier ear thou heedest	O2
What the Inward Teacher saith	E
Listening with a willing spirit	O2
And a childlike faith	E
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Thou mayst live to bless the giver	N
Who himself but frail and weak	R2
Would at least the highest welfare	N
Of another seek	R2
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And his gift though poor and lowly	E
It may seem to other eyes	S
Yet may prove an angel holy	E
In a pilgrim's guise	S