| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Reverses |
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| WHEN mirth is full and free, | |
| Some sudden gloom shall be; | |
| When haughty power mounts high, | |
| The Watcher’s axe is nigh. | |
| All growth has bound; when greatest found, | 5 |
| It hastes to die. | |
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| When the rich town, that long | |
| Has lain its huts among, | |
| Uprears its pageants vast, | |
| And vaunts—it shall not last! | 10 |
| Bright tints that shine are but a sign | |
| Of summer past. | |
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| And when thine eye surveys, | |
| With fond adoring gaze, | |
| And yearning heart, thy friend, | 15 |
| Love to its grave doth tend. | |
| All gifts below, save Truth, but grow | |
| Towards an end. | |
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