Gerald Massey Quotes

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Upon Love's bosom Earth floats like an Ark Safely through all the Deluge of the dark.

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The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.

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And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.

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O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho' Age wearies by the way, And hearts break in the furrow, We'll sow the golden grain Today-- The Harvest comes tomorrow.

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Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth!

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Cling closer, closer, life to life, Cling closer, heart to heart; The time will come, my own wed Wife, When you and I must part! Let nothing break our band but Death, For in the world above 'Tis the breaker Death that soldereth Our ring of Wedded Love.

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The plough of Time breaks up our Eden-land, And tramples down its fruitful flowery prime. Yet thro' the dust of ages living shoots O' the old immortal seed start in the furrows; And, where Love looked on with glorious eye, These quicken'd germs of everlastingness Flower lusty, as of old in Paradise!

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The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently.

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Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.

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All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.

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This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

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I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night. New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart, Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.

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In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.

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In this dim world of clouding cares,
We rarely know, till wildered eyes
See white wings lessening up the skies,
The angels with us unawares.

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The time shall come
When man to man shall be a friend and brother.

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They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

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There's no dearth of kindness
In this world of ours;
Only in our blindness
We gather thorns for flowers.

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Our dearest hopes in pangs are born,
The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.

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A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth

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One sharp stern struggle and the slaves of centuries are free.

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