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But For The Unquiet Heart And Brain A Use In Measured Language Lie
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But for the unquiet heart and brain
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise
Like dull narcotics numbing pain.
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
-- In Memoriam, v, Stanza 2
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Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.
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And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance.
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So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life.
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Who keeps the keys of all the creeds.
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Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.
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But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
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Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand!
Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be!...
And thus he bore without abuse The grand old name of gentleman, Defamed by every charlatan, And soil'd with all ignoble use.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow
The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true....