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We have two lives about us, Two worlds in which we dwell, Within us and without us, Alternate Heaven and Hell:- Without, the somber Real, Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.

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  2. Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands, Like a new Niobe with clasped hands, Silent above the flowers, her children lost, Slain by the…
  3. There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our heart…
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  5. Not what we would, but what we must Makes up the sum of living; Heaven is both more and less than just In taking and in giving.
  6. A face at the window, A tap on the pane; Who is it that wants me To-night in the rain?
  7. It beckons, I follow. Good-by to the light, I am going, O whither? Out into the night.

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