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No command of art,
No toil, can help you hear;
Earth's minstrelsy falls clear
But on the listening heart.

— John Vance Cheney

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More quotes by John Vance Cheney

I pour into the world the eternal streams
Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.

Not in the time of pleasure
Hope doth set her bow;
But in the sky of sorrow,
Over the vale of woe. Through gloom and shadow look we
On beyond the years!
The soul would have no rainbow
Had the eyes no tears.

Tears (1892)

Through gloom and shadow look we
On beyond the years!
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.

We look through gloom and storm-drift
Beyond the years:
The soul would have no rainbow
Had the eyes no tears.

The message from the hedge-leaves,
Heed it, whoso thou art;
Under lowly eaves
Lives the happy heart.

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