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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MUSINGS. THE GARLAND. No cultivated garden did he own, But found his bent by wayside and in forest: He gather'd flowers where seed was never sown, Unless by Nature's Florist. He lack'd the cultured mind, so richly prized, But in the wastes of soul found endless choosins, And cull'd a garland, not to be despised, Of transient thoughts and musings. II. RESIGNATION. One writes a book, and wins the admiring age- One gives to it a deeper toned belief? One makes the world his own applauded stage- One holds its wealth in fief. chapter{{Section 4Each to his lot: unliterary mine; Unholy, unheroic and unrich; I can but hope there are some notes divine Within its highest pitch. 1 strike my fetters, and, above their clank, Methinks I hear some better music ring; And be it mine the scatter'd notes to rank, Their harmony to sing. I've long'd for nobler work; but now I seek No higher plane than this to me assign'd; And trust to snatch a cadence more unique Than elsewhere I could find. III. THOUGHTS. His thoughts?the truest features of the man? Above all else deserve to be recorded: Nothing in history more living than A thought when deftly worded. The words are to the thought its earthly frame: They die in time, and then we deem it ended: But, like the immortal spirit whence it came, The lost has but ascended. chapter{{Section 5Thoughts do not die. Some pass to realms of glory At once, as from the flower the odour flows; While some live seal'd in words from ages hoary ? The ottar of the rose. And so, according to the strong completeness Of that expression, their earth-life prolongs: And some have grown, thro' its surpassing sweetness, Almost time-during songs. FIRST BE, THEN TEACH. If, Poet, thou would'st live...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217534369 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217534368 |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 In |
| List Price | $14.87 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 276 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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