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• With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Mother, Dream, Song

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier”, p.120, tredition

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• Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Autumn, Winter, Snow

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.144

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• There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.

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  Done, Strive, Duty

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.115

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• Along the river's summer walk,
  The withered tufts of asters nod;
  And trembles on its arid stalk
  the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Summer, Journey, July

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.208

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• The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Past, Echoes, History

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.221

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• For still in mutual sufferance lies
  The secret of true living;
  Love scarce is love that never knows
  The sweetness of forgiving.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Forgiveness, Lying, Secret

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.331

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• Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Fall, Littles, Curtains

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.102, tredition

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• From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Children, World, Fields

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.237, tredition

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• Bathsheba! to whom none ever said scat- No worthier cat Ever sat on a mat, Or caught a rat. Requiescat!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Cat, Rats, Caught

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• Truth is one;
  And, in all lands beneath the sun,
  Whoso hath eyes to see may see
  The tokens of its unity.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Truth, Eye, Land

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.342

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• O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Brother, Prayer, Heart

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.124

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• From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Truth, Creeds

  John Greenleaf WHITTIER (1863). “Home Ballads and Poems”, p.165

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• One brave deed makes no hero.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sports, Military, Hero

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.194

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• A faint blush melting through the light of thy transparent cheek like a rose-leaf bathed in dew.

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  Light, Rose, Dew

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• Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Meekness

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.94

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• Others may sing the song. Others may right the wrong.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Song, May

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• What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Thanksgiving, Food, Eye

  1844 'The Pumpkin,' stanza 3.

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• If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Two, Soul, Hyacinths

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “If Thou Of Fortune Be Bereft”

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• The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Past, Offering

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1845). “The Stranger in Lowell”, p.145

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• Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as we may upon its colors and outlines, what is it but an intellectual abstraction, after all? The heart feels a beauty of another kind; looking through the outward environment, it discovers a deeper and more real love-liness.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beauty, Real, Heart

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1866). “Literary recreations and miscellanies”, p.366

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• God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the nakedness of need,- Where farmer folk in silence meet,- I turn my bell-unsummoned feet; I lay the critic's glass aside, I tread upon my lettered pride, And, lowest-seated, testify To the oneness of humanity; Confess the universal want, And share whatever Heaven may grant. He findeth not who seeks his own, The soul is lost that's saved alone.

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  Pride, Men, Oneness

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1869). “Among the Hills, and Other Poems”, p.73

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• Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful. On the other hand, there are faces which the multitude, at first glance, pronounce homely, unattractive and such as "Nature fashions by the gross," which I always recognize with a warm heart-thrill. Not for the world would I have one feature changed; they please me as they are; they are hallowed by kind memories, and are beautiful through their associations.

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  Beautiful, Fashion, Memories

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• The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant

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  Sleep, Mean, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.150, tredition

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• A bending staff I would not break,
  A feeble faith I would not shake,
  Nor even rashly pluck away
  The error which some truth may stay,
  Whose loss might leave the soul without
  A shield against the shafts of doubt.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Faith, Loss, Errors

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.157

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• God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Faith, Light

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.144

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