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Quotes from The Vision of Sir Launfal — James Russell Lowell

1819–1891 United States

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Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it;
We are happy now because God wills it.

The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)

There is no price set on the lavish summer,
And June may be had by the poorest comer.

The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)

And what is so rare as a day in June?

The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)

The Holy Supper is kept, indeed,
In whatso we share with another's need,—
Not that which we give, but what we share,—
For the gift without the giver is bare;
Who bestows himself with his alms feeds three,—
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us;
The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,
The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,
We bargain for the graves we lie in;
At the Devil's booth are all things sold
Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)

Not only around our infancy
Doth heaven with all its splendors lie;
Daily, with souls that cringe and plot,
We Sinais climb and know it not.

The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)

For a cap and bells our lives we pay,
Bubbles we earn with a whole soul's tasking:
'Tis heaven alone that is given away,
'Tis only God may be had for the asking.

The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Russell Lowell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.