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The ultimate, angels' law,
Indulging every instinct of the soul
There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!
A Death in the Desert (1864)
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
A Death in the Desert (1864)
The body sprang
At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,—no!
A Death in the Desert (1864)
For life, with all it yields of joy and woe,
And hope and fear (believe the aged friend),
Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,—
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.
A Death in the Desert (1864)
For I say this is death and the sole death,—
When a man's loss comes to him from his gain,
Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance,
And lack of love from love made manifest.
A Death in the Desert (1864)
What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up,
And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?
No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets:
May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.
A Death in the Desert (1864)