Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn
Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy
Hence in a season of calm weather/ Though inland far we be,/ Our souls have sight of that immortal sea/ Which brought us hither,/ Can in a moment travel thither,/ And see the children sport upon the shore,/ And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;
Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair. . . .
His love was like the liberal air, embracing all, to cheer and bless.
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!
How men lived Even next-door neighbors, as we say, yet still Strangers, not knowing each the other's name.
How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
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