A poet who has not produced a good poem before he is twenty-five, we may conclude cannot, and never will do so.
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Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye, Frozen by distance.
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With gentle hand; Touch - for there is a spirit in the woods.
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'Tis said that some have died for love.
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Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.
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The waves beside them danced but they; Out-did the sparkling waves in glee; A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company.
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