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Ah, me! the vision has vanished—
The music has died away!

— William Wetmore Story Poems of William Wetmore Story (1885)

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Source: "Cleopatra" (1858), Vol. I, p. 129.
Work: Poems of William Wetmore Story, 1885
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They only the victory win,
Who have fought the good fight, and have vanquished the demon that tempts us within;
Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize that the world holds on high;
Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight,—if need be, to die.

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Of every noble work the silent part is best,
Of all expression that which can not be expressed.

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Strive not to say the whole! The Poet, in his Art,
Must intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.

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But the gray and the cold are haunted
By a beauty akin to pain,—
By the sense of a something wanted,
That will never come again.

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And all but their faith overthrown.

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Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet,
Thine odor, like a key,
Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let
A thought of sorrow free.

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