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If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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Arthur Hugh Clough
Age: 42 †
Born: 1819
Born: January 1
Died: 1861
Died: November 13
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City of Liverpool
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It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so: That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip Thou dost not fall.
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Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!
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Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.
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For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!
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When panting sighs the bosom fill, And hands by chance united thrill At once with one delicious pain The pulses and the nerves of twain When eyes that erst could meet with ease, Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun Ecstatic conscious unison, - The sure beginnings, say, be these Prelusive to the strain of love Which angels sing in heaven above?
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Loving if the answering breast Seem not to be thus possessed, Still in hoping have a care If it do, beware, beware! But if in yourself you find it, Above all things mind it, mind it!
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