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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Page 734

James Russell Lowell. (1819–1891) (continued)

Daily, with souls that cringe and plot,
We Sinais climb and know it not.

The Vision of Sir Launfal. Prelude to Part First.

7309

’T is heaven alone that is given away;
’T is only God may be had for the asking.

The Vision of Sir Launfal. Prelude to Part First.

7310

    And what is so rare as a day in June?
  Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune,
  And over it softly her warm ear lays.

The Vision of Sir Launfal. Prelude to Part First.

7311

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it;
We are happy now because God wills it.

The Vision of Sir Launfal. Prelude to Part First.

7312

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

The Vision of Sir Launfal. Prelude to Part First.

7313

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,—
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

The Vision of Sir Launfal. Part Second. viii.

7314

A reading-machine, always wound up and going,
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

A Fable for Critics.

7315

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,
Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on;
Whose prose is grand verse while his verse the Lord knows
Is some of it pr— No, ’t is not even prose!

A Fable for Critics.

7316

Nature fits all her children with something to do.

A Fable for Critics.

7317

    Ez fer war, I call it murder,—
  There you hev it plain an’ flat;
I don’t want to go no furder
  Than my Testyment fer that.
.    .    .    .    .    .    .
An’ you’ve gut to git up airly
  Ef you want to take in God.

The Biglow Papers. First Series. No. i.

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