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As I sat at the cafe, I said to myself,
They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,
They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking,
But help it I cannot, I cannot hel...
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Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), Anglo-American poet. Dipsychus (l. 1-6). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermod...
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''"There is no God," the wicked saith,
"And truly it's a blessing,
For what he might have done with us
It's better only guessing."''
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Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), Anglo-American poet. Dipsychus (l. 1-4). . .
Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. M. H. Abrams...
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''But country folks who live beneath
The shadow and the steeple;
The parson and the parson's wife,
And mostly married people;''
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Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), Anglo-American poet. Dipsychus (l. 21-24). . .
Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. M. H. Abra...
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''And almost every one when age,
Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like Him.''
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Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), Anglo-American poet. Dipsychus (l. 29-32). . .
Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. M. H. Abra...
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''And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
But westward, look, the land is bright!''
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Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), Anglo-American poet. Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth (l. 13-16). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, ...
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''If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.''
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Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), British poet. repr. In Collected Poems, ed. C. Whibley (1913). "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth," (1862).
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''Say not the struggle nought availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.''
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Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), Anglo-American poet. Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Th...
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''Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive
Officiously to keep alive:
Do not adultery commit;
Advantage rarely comes of it:''
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Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), Anglo-American poet. The Latest Decalogue (l. 11-14). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II....
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''Thou shalt not covet; but tradition
Approves all forms of competition.''
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Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), British poet. repr. In Collected Poems, ed. C. Whibley (1913). "The Latest Decalogue," l. 19-20 (1862).
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''Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive
Officiously to keep alive.''
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Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), British poet. repr. In Collected Poems, ed. C. Whibley (1913). "The Latest Decalogue," (1862).
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