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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.

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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
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From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
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Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Love is better than Fame.
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The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.
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The bravest are the most tender the loving are the daring.
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But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
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Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
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Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
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Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.
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