Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems

Another year? another year!
Who dare depend on other years?
The judgment of this world is near,
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The laurel crown! for duty done,
For good achieved, and honours won,
For all of natural gift, or art,
That thrills and fills an earnest heart
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Poor Arctic! once awhile my floating home
Full of kind faces, my right royal yacht,
Alas! how swift and terrible a lot
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O Father! Thou dost love, Thou canst not hate,
It is Thy very nature to be blest
In giving all Thy creatures all the best,
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Evil-eyed loiterer, pilgrim of fashion,
Sunless and hard is thy frost-bitten heart;
Scoffing at nature's affection and passion,
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Eureka! this is truth sublime,
Defying change, out-wrestling time--
Eureka! well that truth is told,
Wisely spake the bard of old--
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Happier under other skies,
--So dreams man--
Happier, link'd with other ties,
Better, worthier, and more wise
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My own little darling -- dead!
The dove of my happiness fled!
Just Heaven, forgive,
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Pent the wynds and closes narrow,
Breathing pestilential air,
Crush'd beneath oppression's harrow,
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The old man he is dead, young heir,
And gone to his long account;
Come, stand on his hearth, and sit in his chair,
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