The Stoddard Library, Vol. 5: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment With the World's Great Writers (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Rebellious flesh that would not be subdued, A vicious parent shaming still its child; Poor anxious penitence, is quick dissolved; Its discords, quenched by meeting harmonies, Die in the large and charitable air. And all our rarer, better, truer self, That sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burden of the world Laboriously tracing what must be, And what may yet be better saw within A worthier image for the sanctuary, And shaped it forth before the multitude Divinely human, raising worship so To higher reverence more mixed with love That better self shall live till human Time Shall fold its eyelids, and the human sky Be gathered like a scroll within the tomb Unread forever.

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