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• Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.

  Philip James Bailey

  Future, Lifts, Shrouds

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.57

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• Love spends his all, and still hath store.

  Philip James Bailey

  Love, Life, Stores

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.268

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• When I forget that the stars shine in air--
  When I forget that beauty is in stars--
  When I forget that love with beauty is--
  Will I forget thee: till then all things else.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, Air, Shining

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.236

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• When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.

  Philip James Bailey

  Night, Lamps, Study

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.112

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• Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

  Philip James Bailey

  Prayer, Heart, Foundation

  Philip James Bailey, “Festus - X”

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• Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.

  Philip James Bailey

  Night, Shadow

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• See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

  Philip James Bailey

  Sunshine, Gold, Beard

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.146

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• A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.

  Philip James Bailey

  Love Is, Sea, Poet

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.253

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• The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

  Philip James Bailey

  Nature, Courses, Whole

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• Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

  Philip James Bailey

  Hate, Wrath, Sin

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.325

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• As the master so the valet.

  Philip James Bailey

  Hero, Masters, Valet

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• And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

  Philip James Bailey

  Joy, Skins, Skin Deep

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.148

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• What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, Sky, Scripture

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.489

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• Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.

  Philip James Bailey

  Snow, Lips, Peeping

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.45

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• Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.

  Philip James Bailey

  Spring, Light, Self

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• The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.

  Philip James Bailey

  Sweet, Stars, Joy

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.221

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• He hath no power that hath not power to use.

  Philip James Bailey

  Power, Use

  "Festus". Poem by Philip James Bailey, 1813.

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• The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

  Philip James Bailey

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.50

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• England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!

  Philip James Bailey

  Country, Heart, World

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• Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.

  Philip James Bailey

  War, Greatness, Air

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• Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

  Philip James Bailey

  Writing, Heart, Mind

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.286

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• Error is worse than ignorance.

  Philip James Bailey

  Ignorance, Errors

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.73

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• True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form,
  The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all
  Which men need render; all which God can bear.
  What to the faith are forms? A passing speck,
  A crow upon the sky.

  Philip James Bailey

  Uplifting, Faith, Eye

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.113

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• Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.

  Philip James Bailey

  Death, War, Blood

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.110

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• Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

  Philip James Bailey

  Sympathy, Heart, Men

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.40

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