Some nobler, ampler stage of life to win,
I'll stop, and say: 'There were no succour here!
(Worldly Place)
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.Matthew Arnold
But, since life teems with ill,
Nurse no extravagant hope.
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Who renders vain their deep desire?
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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.
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Philistinism We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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