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Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
The Excursion (1814)
There is a luxury in self-dispraise;
And inward self-disparagement affords
To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
The Excursion (1814)
And to tired limbs and over-busy thoughts,
Inviting sleep and soft forgetfulness.
The Excursion (1814)
The vision and the faculty divine;
Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.
The Excursion (1814)
And recognizes ever and anon
The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.
The Excursion (1814)
But to a higher mark than song can reach,
Rose this pure eloquence.
The Excursion (1814)
A Man he seems of cheerful yesterdays
And confident to-morrows.
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Wisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.
The Excursion (1814)
A man of hope and forward-looking mind.
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O, sir! the good die first,
And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust
Burn to the socket.
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Society became my glittering bride,
And airy hopes my children.
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That mighty orb of song,
The divine Milton.
The Excursion (1814)
Of one in whom persuasion and belief
Had ripened into faith, and faith become
A passionate intuition.
The Excursion (1814)
There littleness was not; the least of things
Seemed infinite; and there his spirit shaped
Her prospects, nor did he believe,—He saw.
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The primal duties shine aloft, like stars:
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless
Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
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He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer.
The Excursion (1814)
Wisdom married to immortal verse.
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Is Man
A child of hope? Do generations press
On generations, without progress made?
Halts the individual, ere his hairs be gray,
Perforce?
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Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped—to gird
An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne
Whereon he sits! whose deep foundations lie
In veneration and the people's love.
The Excursion (1814)
Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man,
Could field or grove, could any spot of earth,
Show to his eye an image of the pangs
Which it hath witnessed; render back an echo
Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!
The Excursion (1814)