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A Human Compassion

A human compassion, a sense of brotherliness, is certainly not alien to me. … But…

What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,…

1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

I—CONSUMMATION There was a strangeness on your lips,
Lips that had been so sure;
You…

What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist. Tell me not, in…

A Song of Derivations I come from nothing; but from where
Come the undying thoughts…

Obscurest night involv’d the sky,
Th’ Atlantic billows roar’d,
When such a destin’d wretch as…

If we wish to be let in on the secrets of life, we must be…

LIV. Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,…

Well — well, the world must turn upon its axis,
And all mankind turn with…