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Thou has left behind
Powers that will work for thee, air, earth, and skies!
There 's not a breathing of the common wind
That will forget thee; thou hast great allies;
Thy friends are exultations, agonies,
And love, and man's unconquerable mind.
Powers that will work for thee, air, earth, and skies!
There 's not a breathing of the common wind
That will forget thee; thou hast great allies;
Thy friends are exultations, agonies,
And love, and man's unconquerable mind.
To Toussaint L'Ouverture
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves upon silence.
His mind moves upon silence.
Last Poems, 1936-1939, long-Legged fly, refrain
We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind
And lost the old nonchalance of the hand;
Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush,
We are but critics, or but half create.
And lost the old nonchalance of the hand;
Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush,
We are but critics, or but half create.
The Wild Swans at Coole 1919. Ego Dominus Tuas
The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
The Deserted Village
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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