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Grow old along with me	A
The best is yet to be	A
The last of life for which the first was made	B
Our times are in His hand	C
Who saith 'A whole I planned	C
Youth shows but half trust God see all nor be afraid '	D
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Not that amassing flowers	E
Youth sighed 'Which rose make ours	E
Which lily leave and then as best recall '	-
Not that admiring stars	F
It yearned 'Nor Jove nor Mars	F
Mine be some figured flame which blends transcends them all '	-
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Not for such hopes and fears	G
Annulling youth's brief years	G
Do I remonstrate folly wide the mark	H
Rather I prize the doubt	I
Low kinds exist without	I
Finished and finite clods untroubled by a spark	H
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Poor vaunt of life indeed	J
Were man but formed to feed	J
On joy to solely seek and find and feast	K
Such feasting ended then	L
As sure an end to men	L
Irks care the crop full bird Frets doubt the maw crammed beast	K
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Rejoice we are allied	M
To That which doth provide	M
And not partake effect and not receive	N
A spark disturbs our clod	M
Nearer we hold of God	M
Who gives than of His tribes that take I must believe	N
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Then welcome each rebuff	O
That turns earth's smoothness rough	O
Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go	P
Be our joys three parts pain	Q
Strive and hold cheap the strain	Q
Learn nor account the pang dare never grudge the throe	R
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For thence a paradox	S
Which comforts while it mocks	S
Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail	T
What I aspired to be	A
And was not comforts me	A
A brute I might have been but would not sink i' the scale	T
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What is he but a brute	M
Whose flesh has soul to suit	M
Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want play	U
To man propose this test	M
Thy body at its best	M
How far can that project thy soul on its lone way	U
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Yet gifts should prove their use	V
I own the Past profuse	V
Of power each side perfection every turn	W
Eyes ears took in their dole	X
Brain treasured up the whole	X
Should not the heart beat once 'How good to live and learn '	-
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Not once beat 'Praise be Thine	Y
I see the whole design	Y
I who saw power see now love perfect too	M
Perfect I call Thy plan	Z
Thanks that I was a man	Z
Maker remake complete I trust what Thou shalt do '	-
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For pleasant is this flesh	A2
Our soul in its rose mesh	A2
Pulled ever to the earth still yearns for rest	M
Would we some prize might hold	M
To match those manifold	M
Possessions of the brute gain most as we did best	M
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Let us not always say	U
'Spite of this flesh to day	U
I strove made head gained ground upon the whole '	-
As the bird wings and sings	B2
Let us cry 'All good things	B2
Are ours nor soul helps flesh more now than flesh helps soul '	-
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Therefore I summon age	C2
To grant youth's heritage	D2
Life's struggle having so far reached its term	E2
Thence shall I pass approved	M
A man for aye removed	M
From the developed brute a god though in the germ	E2
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And I shall thereupon	F2
Take rest ere I be gone	G2
Once more on my adventure brave and new	M
Fearless and unperplexed	M
When I wage battle next	M
What weapons to select what armour to indue	M
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Youth ended I shall try	R
My gain or loss thereby	R
Leave the fire ashes what survives is gold	M
And I shall weigh the same	H2
Give life its praise or blame	H2
Young all lay in dispute I shall know being old	M
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For note when evening shuts	I2
A certain moment cuts	I2
The deed off calls the glory from the grey	U
A whisper from the west	M
Shoots 'Add this to the rest	M
Take it and try its worth here dies another day '	-
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So still within this life	J2
Though lifted o'er its strife	J2
Let me discern compare pronounce at last	M
This rage was right i' the main	Q
That acquiescence vain	Q
The Future I may face now I have proved the Past '	-
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For more is not reserved	M
To man with soul just nerved	M
To act to morrow what he learns to day	M
Here work enough to watch	K2
The Master work and catch	L2
Hints of the proper craft tricks of the tool's true play	M
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As it was better youth	M2
Should strive through acts uncouth	M2
Toward making than repose on aught found made	M
So better age exempt	M
From strife should know than tempt	M
Further Thou waitedst age wait death nor be afraid	M
Enough now if the Right	M
And Good and Infinite	M
Be named here as thou callest thy hand thine own	N2
With knowledge absolute	M
Subject to no dispute	M
From fools that crowded youth nor let thee feel alone	N2
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Be there for once and all	O2
Severed great minds from small	O2
Announced to each his station in the Past	M
Was I the world arraigned	M
Were they my soul disdained	M
Right Let age speak the truth and give us peace at last	M
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Now who shall arbitrate	M
Ten men love what I hate	M
Shun what I follow slight what I receive	N
Ten who in ears and eyes	P2
Match me we all surmise	P2
They this thing and I that whom shall my soul believe	N
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Not on the vulgar mass	Q2
Called 'work ' must sentence pass	Q2
Things done that took the eye and had the price	R2
O'er which from level stand	M
The low world laid its hand	M
Found straightway to its mind could value in a trice	R2
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But all the world's coarse thumb	S2
And finger failed to plumb	S2
So passed in making up the main account	M
All instincts immature	R
All purposes unsure	R
That weighed not as his work yet swelled the man's amount	M
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Thoughts hardly to be packed	M
Into a narrow act	M
Fancies that broke through language and escaped	M
All I could never be	A
All men ignored in me	A
This I was worth to God whose wheel the pitcher shaped	M
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Ay note that Potter's wheel	T2
That metaphor and feel	T2
Why time spins fast why passive lies our clay	M
Thou to whom fools propound	M
When the wine makes its round	M
'Since life fleets all is change the Past gone seize to day '	-
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Fool All that is at all	O2
Lasts ever past recall	O2
Earth changes but thy soul and God stand sure	R
What entered into thee	A
That was is and shall be	A
Time's wheel runs back or stops Potter and clay endure	R
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He fixed thee mid this dance	U2
Of plastic circumstance	U2
This Present thou forsooth wouldst fain arrest	M
Machinery just meant	M
To give thy soul its bent	M
Try thee and turn thee forth sufficiently impressed	M
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What though the earlier grooves	V2
Which ran the laughing loves	W2
Around thy base no longer pause and press	X2
What though about thy rim	Y2
Skull things in order grim	Y2
Grow out in graver mood obey the sterner stress	X2
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Look not thou down but up	Z2
To uses of a cup	Z2
The festal board lamp's flash and trumpet's peal	T2
The new wine's foaming flow	P
The Master's lips a glow	P
Thou heaven's consummate cup what need'st thou with earth's wheel	T2
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But I need now as then	L
Thee God who mouldest men	L
And since not even while the whirl was worst	M
Did I to the wheel of life	J2
With shapes and colours rife	J2
Bound dizzily mistake my end to slake Thy thirst	M
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So take and use Thy work	A3
Amend what flaws may lurk	A3
What strain o' the stuff what warpings past the aim	H2
My times be in Thy hand	M
Perfect the cup as planned	M
Let age approve of youth and death complete the same	H2