POEMS
VOL. II

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TO J. M.,

Let Fate or Insufficiency provide

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LINES TO A FRIEND VISITING AMERICA,

Now farewell to you! you are

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TIME AND SENTIMENT,

I see a fair young couple in a wood,

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LUCIFER IN STARLIGHT,

On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose

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THE STAR SIRIUS,

Bright Sirius! that when Orion pales

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SENSE AND SPIRIT,

The senses loving Earth or well or ill

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EARTH’S SECRET,

Not solitarily in fields we find

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INTERNAL HARMONY,

Assured of worthiness we do not dread

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GRACE AND LOVE,

Two flower-enfolding crystal vases she

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APPRECIATION,

Earth was not Earth before her sons appeared,

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THE DISCIPLINE OF WISDOM,

Rich labour is the struggle to be wise

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THE STATE OF AGE,

Rub thou thy battered lamp: nor claim nor beg

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PROGRESS,

In Progress you have little faith, say you:

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THE WORLD’S ADVANCE,

Judge mildly the tasked world; and disincline

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A CERTAIN PEOPLE,

As Puritans they prominently wax,

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THE GARDEN OF EPICURUS,

That Garden of sedate Philosophy

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A LATER ALEXANDRIAN,

An inspiration caught from dubious hues

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AN ORSON OF THE MUSE,

Her son, albeit the Muse’s livery

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THE POINT OF TASTE,

Unhappy poets of a sunken prime!

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CAMELUS SALTAT,

What say you, critic, now you have become

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CONTINUED,

Oracle of the market! thence you drew

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