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O hope, most futile of futilities!
Thine iron summons comes again,
O inevadible Pain!

The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world.

Little Jesus, was Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be Out of Heaven, and just like me?

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird.

For we are born in others pain, and perish in our own.

Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.

Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.

In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.

The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To her who loved the rose.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.