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Quotes from O May I Join the Choir Invisible — George Eliot

1819–1880 England

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This is life to come, —
Which martyred men have made more glorious
For us who strive to follow.

O May I Join the Choir Invisible (1867)

So shall I join the choir invisible
Whose music is the gladness of the world.

O May I Join the Choir Invisible (1867)

So to live is heaven:
To make undying music in the world,
Breathing a beauteous order that controls
With growing sway the growing life of man.

O May I Join the Choir Invisible (1867)

O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn
For miserable aims that end with self,
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,
And with their mild persistence urge men's search
To vaster issues.

O May I Join the Choir Invisible (1867)

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