RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES.
_Tragedy of the Lac de Gaube_.
Stanza 2.
But on and up, where Nature's heart
Beats strong amid the hills.
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_The Men of Old_.
Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them,
Like instincts, unawares.
* * * * *
A man's best things are nearest him,
Lie close about his feet.
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BRYAN W. PROCTOR.
_The Sea_.
The sea! the sea! the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
* * * * *
I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more.
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ALFRED TENNYSON.
_Locksley Hall_.
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have
spent its novel force,
Something better than his dog, a little dearer
than his horse.
I will take some savage woman, she shall rear
my dusky race.
* * * * *
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of
Cathay.
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_In Memoriam_. xxvii.
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
* * * * *
_Fatima_. St. 3.
O Love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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