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When the good man yields his breath
(For the good man never dies). 1

The Wanderer of Switzerland. Part v.

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    Gashed with honourable scars,
  Low in Glory’s lap they lie;
Though they fell, they fell like stars,
  Streaming splendour through the sky.

The Battle of Alexandria.

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Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea.

The Ocean. Line 54.

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Once, in the flight of ages past,
There lived a man.

The Common Lot.

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Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more.

The West Indies. Part iii.

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Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive. 2

The World before the Flood. Canto v.

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Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.

The Little Cloud.

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Bliss in possession will not last;
Remembered joys are never past;
At once the fountain, stream, and sea,
They were, they are, they yet shall be.

The Little Cloud.

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    Friend after friend departs;
  Who hath not lost a friend?
There is no union here of hearts
  That finds not here an end.

Friends.

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Nor sink those stars in empty night:
They hide themselves in heaven’s own light.

Friends.

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’T is not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.

The Issues of Life and Death.

Note 1.
[greek] (Say not that the good die).—Callimachus: Epigram x. [back]

Note 2.
See Barbauld, Quotation 3. [back]