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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

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Philip James Bailey (1816–1902)

From The Beauties of Festus

THERE are points from which we can command our life,

When the soul sweeps the future like a glass,

And coming things, full-freighted with our fate,

Jut out dark on the offing of the mind.