THE DREAMER.
The charm, in his keeping,
Can comfort the weeping,
Can soften the rugged, and strengthen the weak
He wins, with devotion,
Man's noblest emotion,
And telleth the things that none other can speak.
Can comfort the weeping,
Can soften the rugged, and strengthen the weak
He wins, with devotion,
Man's noblest emotion,
And telleth the things that none other can speak.
"While thou art fulfilling,
With sowing and tilling,
The portion of duty God chose to assign!
This One is intrusted
With talents, adjusted
To render his office far higher than thine.
With sowing and tilling,
The portion of duty God chose to assign!
This One is intrusted
With talents, adjusted
To render his office far higher than thine.
"The power he holdeth,
The scroll he unfoldeth,
Your utmost of striving will fail to obtain;
Life's rarest bequeathing
But lives in his breathing;
And think'st thou such gift was allotted in vain?
The scroll he unfoldeth,
Your utmost of striving will fail to obtain;
Life's rarest bequeathing
But lives in his breathing;
And think'st thou such gift was allotted in vain?
"Go, go, thou rebuker,
Hard son of hard lucre!
Let the dreaming One rove as he lists on the sward;
And tremble, ye Toilers,
Ye Spirit despoilers;
When the Poet is thrust from Humanity's board!"
Hard son of hard lucre!
Let the dreaming One rove as he lists on the sward;
And tremble, ye Toilers,
Ye Spirit despoilers;
When the Poet is thrust from Humanity's board!"
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