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O Balder, he who fashion’d us,
And bade us live and move,
Shall weave for Death’s sad heavenly hair
Immortal flowers of love.

— Robert Williams Buchanan Balder the Beautiful (1877)

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Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought,
The singer, upward-springing,
Is grander than his singing,
And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought.

Undertones (1883)

Along the melting shores of earth
An emerald flame there ran,
Forest and field grew bright, and mirth
Gladdened the flocks of man.

Balder the Beautiful (1877)

All that is beautiful shall abide,
All that is base shall die.

Balder the Beautiful (1877)

So bent on self-sanctifying,—
That she never thought of trying
To save her poor husband as well.

Their hearts and sentiments were free, their appetites were hearty.

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