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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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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
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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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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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