y a wind-swung fold. --Page 6.
Now in memory comes my mother,
As she was long years agone,
To regard the darling dreamers
Ere she left them till the dawn. --Page 8.
I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles. --Page 60.
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever. --Page 61.
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man. --Page 86.
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes may be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought. --Page 88.
And when the arrows of sunset
Lodged in the tree-tops bright,
He fell, in his saint-like beauty,
Asleep by the gates of light. --Page 129.
Save me alike from foolish pride,
Or impious discontent,
Or aught thy wisdom has denied,
Or aught thy goodness lent. --Page 173.
And there through the flash of the morning light,
A steed as black as the steeds of night,
Was seen to pass as with eagle flight. --Page 224.
Noiselessly as the springtime
Her crown of verdure weaves,
And all the trees on all the hills
Open their thousand leaves. --Page 267.
Who dies in youth and vigor, dies the best,
Struck through with wounds, all honest, on the breast. --Page 369.
(Volume V)
I was not ever thus, nor prayed that thou
Shouldst lead me on;
I loved to choose and see my path, but now
Lead thou me on;
I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears,
Pride ruled my will. Remember not past years. --Page 111.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. --Page 112.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. --Page 112.
the knotted column of his throat,
The massive square of his heroic breast,
And arms on which the standing muscle sloped,
As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone,
Running too vehemently to break it.
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