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• Do your heart and head keep pace? When does hoary Love expire, When do frosts put out the fire? Can its embers burn below All that chill December snow?

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Heart, Fire, Snow

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.238

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• Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Song, Spring, Sky

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1891). “Poetical Works”

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• Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Fate, Sea, Rude

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.199

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• Lo, as I gaze, the statured man,
  Built up from you large hand appears:
  A type that nature wills to plan
  But once in all a people's years.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Men, Hands, Years

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• But every human path leads on to God;
  He holds a myriad finer threads than gold,
  And strong as holy wishes, drawing us
  With delicate tension upward to Himself.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Strong, Drawing, Wish

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.45

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• O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life!
  O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Sweet, Spring, Dawn

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “The Blameless Prince: And Other Poems”, p.164

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• Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Fashion, Art, Judging

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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