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Yea, this in him was the peculiar grace

(Hearten our chorus)

Still before living he'd learn how to live-
No end to learning.

Earn the means first- God surely will contrive

Use for our earning.

Others mistrust and say

"But time escapes,

"Live now or never!"

He said, "What's Time? leave Now for dogs and apes! Man has Forever."

Back to his book then: deeper drooped his head;

Calculus racked him:

Leaden before, his eyes grew dross of lead;

Tussis attacked him

"Now, Master, take a little rest!"

(Caution redoubled!

not he!

Step two a-breast, the way winds narrowly.)

Not a whit troubled,

Back to his studies, fresher than at first,

Fierce as a dragon

He, (soul-hydroptic with a sacred thirst)

Sucked at the flagon.

Oh, if we draw a circle premature,
Heedless of far gain,

Greedy for quick returns of profit, sure,

Bad is our bargain!

Was it not great? did he not throw on God, (He loves the burthen)

God's task to make the heavenly period

Perfect the earthen?

Did not he magnify the mind, show clear

Just what it all meant?

He would not discount life, as fools do here,

Paid by instalment !

He ventured neck or nothing-heaven's success

Found, or earth's failure :

"Wilt thou trust death or not?" he answered "Yes. "Hence with life's pale lure!"

That low man seeks a little thing to do,

Sees it and does it:

This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.

That low man goes on adding one to one,

His hundred's soon hit:

This high man, aiming at a million,

Misses an unit.

That, has the world here - should he need the next,

Let the world mind him!

This, throws himself on God, and unperplext

Seeking shall find Him.

So, with the throttling hands of Death at strife,
Ground he at grammar;

Still, thro' the rattle, parts of speech were rife.
While he could stammer

He settled Hoti's business let it be !

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Well, here's the platform, here's the proper place. Hail to your purlieus

All ye highfliers of the feathered race,

Swallows and curlews!

Here's the top-peak! the multitude below
Live, for they can there.

This man decided not to Live but Know

Bury this man there?

Here-here's his place, where meteors shoot, clouds form,

Lightnings are loosened,

Stars come and go! let joy break with the storm

Peace let the dew send!

Lofty designs must close in like effects:

Loftily lying,

Leave him still loftier than the world suspects,

Living and dying.

ONE WAY OF LOVE.

1.

ALL June I bound the rose in sheaves.

Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves,
And strew them where Pauline may pass.
She will not turn aside? Alas!

Let them lie. Suppose they die?

The chance was they might take her eye.

2.

How many a month I strove to suit
These stubborn fingers to the lute!
To-day I venture all I know.

She will not hear my music? So!
Break the string-fold music's wing.
Suppose Pauline had bade me sing!

3.

My whole life long I learned to love.
This hour my utmost art I prove

And speak my passion. Heaven or hell?
She will not give me heaven? 'Tis well!

Lose who may-I still can say,

Those who win heaven, blest are they.

ANOTHER WAY OF LOVE.

JUNE was not over,

Though past the full,

1.

And the best of her roses

Had yet to blow,

When a man I know

(But shall not discover,

Since ears are dull,

And time discloses)

Turned him and said with a man's true air,

Half sighing a smile in a yawn, as 'twere, "If I tire of your June, will she greatly care?"

2.

Well, Dear, in-doors with you!

True, serene deadness

Tries a man's temper.

What's in the blossom

June wears on her bosom?

Can it clear scores with you?

Sweetness and redness,

Eadem semper!

Go, let me care for it greatly or slightly!

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