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FAME, wisdom, love, and power were mine,
And health and youth possess'd me;

My goblets blush'd from every vine,
And lovely forms caress'd me;

I sunn'd my heart in beauty's eyes,
And felt my soul grow tender;
All earth can give, or mortal prize,
Was mine of regal splendour.

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I strive to number o'er what days

Remembrance can discover,

Which all that life or earth displays
Would lure me to live over.

There rose no day, there roll'd no hour Of pleasure unembittered;

And not a trapping deck'd my power That gall'd not while it glittered.

III.

The serpent of the field, by art !

And spells, is won from harming; But that which coils around the heart, Oh! who hath power of charming?

It will not list to wisdom's lore,
Nor music's voice can lure it;
But there it stings for evermore
The soul that must endure it.

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WHEN COLDNESS WRAPS THIS SUFFERING CLAY,

Ah, whither strays the immortal mind?

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By steps each planet's heavenly way?

Or fill at once the realms of space,

A thing of eyes, that all survey?

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Eternal, boundless, undecay'd,

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All, all in earth, or skies display'd,

Shall it survey, shall it recal:

Each fainter trace that memory holds

So darkly of departed years, o z In one broad glance the soul beholds,

And all, that was, at once appears.

III.

Before Creation peopled earth,

Its eye

shall roll through chaos back;

And where the furthest heaven had birth,'

The spirit trace its rising track.

And where the future mars or makes,

Its glance dilate o'er all to be,

While sun is quench'd or system breaks,

Fix'd in its own eternity.

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Above or Love, Hope, Hate, or Fear,
It lives all passionless and pure:
An age shall fleet like earthly year;
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Away, away, without a wing,

O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly;

A nameless and eternal thing,

Forgetting what it was to die.

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