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First Line: Deed and event of prouder stature
Last Line: Of spirits infinitely kind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund


DEED and event of prouder stature
Dare not always overshade
The first fresh buddings of our nature;
Their hidden colour does not fade.

We well may quit our laboured action
At some sweet call to early loves,
And find the jewel of self-contraction
Like saints in rocks and springs and groves.

Win back the world when true Aurora
Dawned a goddess, not an hour!
Think, have you caught the smile of Flora
Since your own life was a young flower?

And Love, even Love, has dropped her lilies
On the hot highroad; once she knew
How columbines and daffadillies
Created her own sun and dew.

Return; how stands that man enchanted
Who, after seas and mountains crossed,
Finds his old threshold, so long scanted,
With not a rose or robin lost!

The wise, from passion now retreating
To the hamlets of the mind,
In every glance have claimed the greeting
Of spirits infinitely kind.





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