The night with sudden odour reeled; The southern stars a music pealed.
Alfred Tennyson
All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.
men
And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
Then spake Sir Richard Grenville: I know you are no coward; You fly them for a moment to fight with them again. But I've ninety men and more that are lying sick ashore. I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard, To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of Spain.
For now the poet can not die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.
music
There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes.
Lead out the pageant: sad and slow, As fits an universal woe, Let the long, long procession go, And let the sorrowing crowd about it grow, And let the mournful martial music blow; The last great Englishman is low.
Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
mind
So many minds did gird their orbs with beams, Tho' one did fling the fire; Heaven flow'd upon the soul in many dreams Of high desire.
dreams mind
A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.
worth
That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.
strength
When every morning brought a noble chance, And every chance brought out a noble knight.
chance
Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere?
pain
Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword Evolution here.
pain evolution
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