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Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse (1868)
Reach me down my Tycho Brahé, — I would know him when we meet,
When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet.
Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse (1868)
What, for us, are all distractions of men's fellowship and smiles?
What, for us, the goddess Pleasure, with her meretricious wiles?
Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse (1868)
Is it so, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer most?
That the strongest wander farthest, and more hopelessly are lost?
That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain,
And the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain? —
"I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now."
Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse (1868)