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I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.

Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.

A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.

How silent are the winds!

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn,
Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute,
Are half so sweet as tender human words.

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Touch us gently, Time!
Let us glide adown thy stream
Gently,-as we sometimes glide
Through a quiet dream!

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.

Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.