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S H	A
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With beams December planets dart	B
His cold eye truth and conduct scanned	C
July was in his sunny heart	B
October in his liberal hand	C
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A H	-
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High was her heart and yet was well inclined	D
Her manners made of bounty well refined	D
Far capitals and marble courts her eye still seemed to see	E
Minstrels and kings and high born dames and of the best that be	E
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'SUUM CUIQUE '	-
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Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill	F
Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill	F
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HUSH	G
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Every thought is public	H
Every nook is wide	I
Thy gossips spread each whisper	J
And the gods from side to side	I
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ORATOR	J
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He who has no hands	K
Perforce must use his tongue	L
Foxes are so cunning	M
Because they are not strong	N
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ARTIST	O
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Quit the hut frequent the palace	P
Reck not what the people say	Q
For still where'er the trees grow biggest	O
Huntsmen find the easiest way	Q
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POET	R
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Ever the Poet from the land	C
Steers his bark and trims his sail	S
Right out to sea his courses stand	C
New worlds to find in pinnace frail	S
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POET	R
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To clothe the fiery thought	T
In simple words succeeds	U
For still the craft of genius is	V
To mask a king in weeds	U
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BOTANIST	W
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Go thou to thy learned task	X
I stay with the flowers of spring	M
Do thou of the ages ask	X
What me the flowers will bring	M
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GARDENER	J
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True Bramin in the morning meadows wet	Y
Expound the Vedas of the violet	Z
Or hid in vines peeping through many a loop	A2
See the plum redden and the beurre stoop	A2
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FORESTER	J
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He took the colour of his vest	B2
From rabbit's coat or grouse's breast	B2
For as the wood kinds lurk and hide	I
So walks the woodman unespied	I
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NORTHMAN	C2
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The gale that wrecked you on the sand	I
It helped my rowers to row	D2
The storm is my best galley hand	I
And drives me where I go	D2
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FROM ALCUIN	C2
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The sea is the road of the bold	I
Frontier of the wheat sown plains	E2
The pit wherein the streams are rolled	I
And fountain of the rains	E2
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EXCELSIOR	J
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Over his head were the maple buds	F2
And over the tree was the moon	C2
And over the moon were the starry studs	F2
That drop from the angel's shoon	C2
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BORROWING	M
FROM THE FRENCH	G2
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Some of your hurts you have cured	I
And the sharpest you still have survived	I
But what torments of grief you endured	I
From evils which never arrived	I
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NATURE	J
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Boon Nature yields each day a brag which we now first behold	I
And trains us on to slight the new as if it were the old	I
But blest is he who playing deep yet haply asks not why	H2
Too busied with the crowded hour to fear to live or die	H2
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FATE	I
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Her planted eye to day controls	I2
Is in the morrow most at home	J2
And sternly calls to being souls	I2
That curse her when they come	K2
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HOROSCOPE	L2
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Ere he was born the stars of fate	I
Plotted to make him rich and great	I
When from the womb the babe was loosed	I
The gate of gifts behind him closed	I
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POWER	J
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Cast the bantling on the rocks	M2
Suckle him with the she wolf's teat	I
Wintered with the hawk and fox	M2
Power and speed be hands and feet	I
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CLIMACTERIC	M
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I am not wiser for my age	N2
Nor skilful by my grief	O2
Life loiters at the book's first page	N2
Ah could we turn the leaf	O2
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HERI CRAS HODIE	I
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Shines the last age the next with hope is seen	C2
To day slinks poorly off unmarked between	C2
Future or Past no richer secret folds	P2
O friendless Present than thy bosom holds	P2
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MEMORY	E
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Night dreams trace on Memory's wall	Q2
Shadows of the thoughts of day	I
And thy fortunes as they fall	Q2
The bias of the will betray	I
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LOVE	R2
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Love on his errand bound to go	M
Can swim the flood and wade through snow	M
Where way is none 'twill creep and wind	I
And eat through Alps its home to find	I
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SACRIFICE	S2
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Though love repine and reason chafe	T2
There came a voice without reply	H2
''Tis man's perdition to be safe	T2
When for the truth he ought to die '	-
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PERICLES	S2
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Well and wisely said the Greek	M
Be thou faithful but not fond	I
To the altar's foot thy fellow seek	M
The Furies wait beyond	I
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CASELLA	U2
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Test of the poet is knowledge of love	R2
For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove	R2
Never was poet of late or of yore	V2
Who was not tremulous with love lore	V2
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SHAKSPEARE	V2
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I see all human wits	S2
Are measured but a few	R2
Unmeasured still my Shakspeare sits	S2
Lone as the blessed Jew	R2
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HAFIZ	S2
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Her passions the shy violet	I
From Hafiz never hides	S2
Love longings of the raptured bird	I
The bird to him confides	S2
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NATURE IN LEASTS	S2
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As sings the pine tree in the wind	I
So sings in the wind a sprig of the pine	C2
Her strength and soul has laughing France	S2
Shed in each drop of wine	C2
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GREEK TITLE	W2
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'A new commandment ' said the smiling Muse	S2
'I give my darling son Thou shalt not preach '	-
Luther Fox Behmen Swedenborg grew pale	S
And on the instant rosier clouds upbore	V2
Hafiz and Shakspeare with their shining choirs	S2