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THE DIVISION OF RANKS

Yes, in the moral world, as ours, we see
Divided grades--a Soul's Nobility;
By deeds their titles Commoners create--
The loftier order are by birthright great.[5]

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TO THE MYSTIC

Spreads Life's true mystery round us evermore,
Seen by no eye, it lies all eyes before.

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WISDOM AND PRUDENCE

Wouldst thou the loftiest height of Wisdom gain?
On to the rashness, Prudence would disdain;
The purblind see but the receding shore,
Not that to which the bold wave wafts thee o'er!

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THE UNANIMITY

Truth seek we both--Thou, in the life without thee and around;
I in the Heart within--by both can Truth alike be found;
The healthy eye can through the world the great Creator track--
The healthy heart is but the glass which gives creation back.

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THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS

All that thou dost be right--to that alone confine thy view,
And halt within the certain rule--the All that's right to do!
True zeal _the what already is_ would sound and perfect see;
False zeal would sound and perfect make the something that's to be!

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TO ASTRONOMERS

Of the Nebulae and planets do not babble so to me;
What! is Nature only mighty inasmuch as you can see?
Inasmuch as you can measure her immeasurable ways,
As she renders world on world, sun and system to your gaze?
Though through space your object be the Sublimest to embrace,
Never the Sublime abideth--where you vainly search--in space!

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THE BEST GOVERNED STATE

How the best state to know?--It is found out,
Like the best women--that least talked about.

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MY BELIEF

What thy religion? Those thou namest--none!
None! Why?--Because I have religion!

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FRIEND AND FOE

Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good;
My friend shows what I _can_ do, and my foe shows what I _should_.

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LIGHT AND COLOR

Dwell, Light, beside the changeless God--God spoke and Light began;
Come, thou, the ever-changing one--come, Color, down to Man!

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