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		<title>Dedication: To Tracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you would find a moral in these lines, Look not, dear Tracy! on the words alone: On all the hopes and fears – symbols and signs – Virtues and vices – musings half-unknown: – (Even at best, shallow and rudely done Yester-ideas); look not! though they be bare Of worth, the faults are thick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.’ – Job 5:7 The sparks fly upward from the frantic flame, And catch the evening breeze, and pass away: Born of a moment, passionless and tame And impotent, they flee and cannot stay; The foamy surges fling themselves to shore, But cannot hold; reversion counteracts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lines: The Sun Spread its Balmy Subsistence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sun spread its balmy subsistence; The earth lay in silence below; The breeze softly murmured its presence; We walked where the blue lupines grow. The day was inviting and warm; The sky, stretched out broadly above, Little spoke of the hastening storm; Thou whispered of laughter and love. A wisp on the gloomy horizon, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cowhand</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An old cowhand, his face all gnarled and brown, For he had seen the dust of many trails And scorching drives – the freezing winds had blown, The rains had come, as he pushed toward the rails; But the rough plains, and wind, and rain, and gales Had not yet dimmed his eye, nor yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rape of Issus</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of the breathless night Creeps reluctant Dawn; A sickly ray of light Glimmers, and is gone. No scurrying creature slight From its nest has stirred; No bird is seen in flight; No sound is heard. Ten thousand ranks of men, Gaunt, unmoving, stand; A spectral blade is seen In each bloodless hand. The gloom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lamentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Draw thy bellows o’er the burning coal; Skim the dross, mingled with my soul. Cast the waste on thy refuse heap; Temper thy steel with the tears I weep. Rivers run down to the sea, Yet seas run dry; – all is vanity! Mountains fall; flowers fade; And my withered heart has found no shade. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Returning to Northland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day is come; I pause, remembering: Once more I walk the narrow halls of brick, Pace once again the ways I know so well, And thrill to trace fond lineaments of old; Too long, too long have I been gone from you! Too long walked paths less known, less understood, And ah! been far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ode on a Fruitless Elk Hunt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I How long this wasteland have I roamed? How long Have windblown hilltops, rising stark and bare O’er barren, snowswept meadows been my home? How long will th’ frozen air In frozen fury howl her frozen song? How long yet will I roam? For time seems slowed by this bitter cold: This desert land of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Poet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Allegory He plunged beneath the unfathomable sea, Whose waves are strong and dread; The mighty billows roaring maddeningly Thundered above his head. He had but faith and an unwavering will; He had undying love, And a fervent spirit that could brook no ill, When he left the storm above. The Kraken’s slime about him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To________</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might have seen the flags unfurled In splendor, telling of the fame And honor of your well-loved name, Through realms and nations of the world, Or turned your dexterous hand to such As lends to one of cunning skill, Devout in heart and strong in will, Her bounteous treasure overmuch, And thus immortal in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Weep for You, America</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We weep for you, America, Your faded hopes, your broken dreams; We see the crumbling of your law, Unlit by Justice’ dying beams; We find no answer, no redress, And weep for you – not love you less. We weep for you! our bitter tears Proclaim the long result of sin: Our lofty eyes, our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Land of the Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[God plucked thee from the monarch’s brow, The brightest jewel in his crown, And found in stern oppression’s bough The fruit of freedom dropping down: America! land of the blessed! In being watchful, thou art strong; Be brave: that patriot’s the best Who fears not to assail the wrong. Land of the free! May God [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To C________</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concealed within the letters of these lines, (Fate, I suppose, has touched my humble pen, For mere coincidence, that intertwines And interacts with words of common men, Will simply not suffice, to thoughtful minds, As the solution to this quandary,) There dances cunningly, and strangely winds The name – sweet name – of her whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Rebekah</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rebekah! if the stony hand of Time Erase these lines (for what has Time of shame, Being careless of the subtleties of rhyme, Even daring to efface your well-loved name?), Kind heart! your name will still be trebly dear: As you yourself, your name is rich and pure – Honest and firm – impassioned and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Nikki</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Nikki, my dear Nikki, – but forgive My overboldness thus to call you mine: It is but wishfulness; it is a sign Of heartfelt longing fed by deep desire, A hope that will not die; – oh, let it live! Let it spring upward, clearer, brighter, higher, Till it become a joy that cannot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Nikki</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On hearing her sing ‘Danny Boy’ O Nikki dear, my heart, my heart is broken: I have, alas! no hope, no peace, no joy; ‘Tis not, ‘tis not the words that you have spoken, But that you spoke them, sweet! to Danny boy: But, oh! how full could be my consolation, And, oh! how sweet, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Seth,</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illustrious director of Camp Grace, from the guys in the Lions cabin Dear Seth, Take heart! We’ve seen your plight And think it still may turn out right: If you’ll just take some sound advice, We’ll have you fixed up in a trice, All happy with a loving wife To brighten up your fading life. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to a Crystalline Lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flood my sight, Thou my crystalline delight, With the early morning light Refracted: Let me see, Dancing with a sparkling glee, Ev’ry leaf of ev’ry tree Reflected In the surface calm, unbroken, All agleam, Of thy slumb’ring depths, unwoken From a silent dream; From a vision that I deem Will evermore remain unspoken – From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innocence Lost</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No crime more grievous: no higher cost: No wound more bitter than innocence lost. I Sweet little lamb! Innocent child! Young and so helpless: meek and so mild: What makes thee weep and sigh? why dost thou moan? Why art thou lying here sad and alone? Innocent lamb! when wilt thou rise? When wilt thou [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dance of the Fairies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is an evening calm and still, With daylight palely ling’ring; O’er aspen-gilded mead and hill, To mingle with many a flutter and thrill, Sweet fairies dance, and softly sing: Come hither! Come hither! As far below, wand’ring, The silv’ry streams slither, So let us be yond’ring, It matters not whither! Oh, still let us [...]]]></description>
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