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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Law
Freedom
Atheism
Genius
Literature

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What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
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Over our manhood bend the skies Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age’s drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
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Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?
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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
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Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.
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