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The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.

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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
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P. J. Bailey
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Tears
Sweet
Joy
Stars
Dew

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Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
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Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
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When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
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Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
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Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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Poetry is itself a thing of God He made his prophets poets and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.
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Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
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