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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Change
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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 ages drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
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Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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