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Excerpt from The Happy Princess: And Other Poems
In this unquiet, greatly-forging day, What heart shall have a musing hour to stay The labor of its striving, or forget A little while the goal on which is set The Spirit's passion? Will some listener bring An ear subdued to harken while I sing My unpretentious music of low tone, When all his thought is throbbing with his own Unuttered songs of intimate hope or pain? Nay, none will hear and I shall sing in vain. Yet as the deathless bards so bright of old Sang each his dream, weaving the secret gold Of fancy in the woof, until its fire Of beauty passeth all that men desire, So poets less imperial still shall dare Lift up their voices on the crowded air Knowing that though the melody be frail, Yet such alone is way that can avail Ever for bard. And though I be not he Destined to make immortal minstrelsy, Yet they who love the poets of dead years Will give me grace to pour in some few ears A tale I choose all other tales above To wreathe about with memory and with love.
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