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birds
Choose there their joyous
revelry;
The sunbeams glint in golden herds,
The river mirrors
silently.
Under these trees
My heart would bound or break;
Tell
me what goal, resonant breeze?
"For you, mistake!"
CHARITY.
What is there left? The arid way,
The chilling height, whence all the
world
Looks little, and each radiant day,
Like the soul's banner,
flies unfurled.
May I stand here;
In this rare ether slake
My
reverential lips, and fear
No last mistake?
Some spirits wander till they die,
With shattered thoughts and
trembling hands;
What jarred their natures hopelessly
No living

wight yet understands.
There is no goal,
Whatever end they make;

Though prayers each trusting step control,
They win mistake.
This is so true, we dare not learn
Its force until our hopes are old,

And, skyward, God's star-beacons burn
The brighter as our hearts
grow cold.
If all we miss,
In the great plans that shake
The world,
still God has need of this,--
Even our mistake.
A PASSING VOICE.
"Turn me a rhyme," said Fate,
"Turn me a rhyme:
A swift and
deadly hate
Blows headlong towards thee in the teeth of Time.

Write! or thy words will fall too late."
"Write me a fold," said Fate,
"Write me a fold,
Life to conciliate,

Of words red with thine heart's blood, hotly told.
Then, kings may
envy thine estate!"
"Make thee a fame," said Fate,
"Make thee a fame
To storm the
heaven-hung gate,
Unbarred alone to the victorious name
Which
has Art's conquerors to mate."
"Die in thy shame," said Fate,
"Die in thy shame!
Naught here can
compensate
But the proud radiance of that glorious flame,
Genius:
fade, thou, unconsecrate!"
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