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Who renders vain their deep desire?Matthew Arnold
And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure; Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so.
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Composed to bear, I lived and died,
And knew my life was vain.
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This strange disease of modern life.
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When we first saw the news of the bombing we didn't know he was out there in Bali,
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In his poetry as well as in his life Shelley was indeed 'a beautiful and ineffectual angel', beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
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