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Edmund Clarence Stedman

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    Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be wild, To Earth I bring; Then let me soar and sing!

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    A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

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    Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

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    But every human path leads on to God; He holds a myriad finer threads than gold, And strong as holy wishes, drawing us With delicate tension upward to Himself.

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    Do your heart and head keep pace? When does hoary Love expire, When do frosts put out the fire? Can its embers burn below All that chill December snow?

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    Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

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    Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

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    Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.

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    Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale Is wild within me! what may quell That sullen tempest? I must sail Whither, O whither, who can tell!

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    Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years.

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    Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

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    Music waves eternal wands,-- Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

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    Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.

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    No clouds are in the morning sky, The vapors hug the stream, Who says that life and love can die In all this northern gleam? At every turn the maples burn, The quail is whistling free, The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs Are dropping for you and me. Ho! hillyho! heigh O! Hillyho! In the clear October morning.

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    No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned.

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    O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life! O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true!

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    Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

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    Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.

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    Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.

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    The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

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    The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

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    The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.

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    The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows fall.

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    War! war! war! Heaven aid the right! God move the hero's arm in the fearful fight! God send the women sleep in the long, long night, When the breasts on whose strength they leaned shall heave no more.

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    Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?

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    Worth, courage, honor, these indeed Your sustenance and birthright are.

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    Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.