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

Page 738

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

7350

    Nature, they say, doth dote,
  And can not make a man
  Save on some worn-out plan,
Repeating us by rote.

Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865.

7351

What men call treasure and the Gods call dross.

Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865.

7352

Here was a type of the true elder race,
And one of Plutarch’s men talked with us face to face.

Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865.

7353

Darkness is strong, and so is Sin,
But surely God endures forever.

Villa Franca.

7354

Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

The Cathedral.

7355

The one thing finished in this hasty world.

The Cathedral.

7356

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,
Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;
The diver Omar plucked them from their bed,
FitzGerald strung them on an English thread.

In a Copy of Omar Khayyam.

7357

The wisest man could ask no more of Fate
Than to be simple, modest, manly, true,
Safe from the Many—honored by the Few;
To count as naught in World or Church or State;
But inwardly in secret to be great.

Sonnet. Jeffries Wyman.

7358

The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snow
Not whiter than the thoughts that housed below.

To George William Curtis.

7359

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet
Lessen like sound of friends’ departing feet;
And Death is beautiful as feet of friend
Coming with welcome at our journey’s end.

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