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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
 But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love;
 No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, read more 
 But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love;
 No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love;
  The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain
   Make Good
    Together there we can begin again
     In babyhood. 
 There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever 
hath no beginning may be confident of no end.  
 There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever 
hath no beginning may be confident of no end. 
 Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him,
 Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,
  Catullus read more 
 Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him,
 Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,
  Catullus scarcely has a decent poem,
   I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example,
    Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn
     Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample;
      But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one
       Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon." 
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the read more
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
 The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
 Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
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 The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
 Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
  But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
   Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,
    The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. 
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned read more
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect
The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and read more
The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.