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• Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world
  Repeats the passage of the universe
  To God; the name of Christ--the one great word
  Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, Light, Names

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• The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

  Philip James Bailey

  Wise, Ignorance, Errors

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

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• Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

  Philip James Bailey

  Inspiration, Night, Light

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.208

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• I am tired of looking on what is,
  One might as well see beauty never more,
  As look upon it with an empty eye.
  I would this world were over. I am tired.

  Philip James Bailey

  Tired, Eye, Looks

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.149

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• Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

  Philip James Bailey

  Sorrow

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.405

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• Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.

  Philip James Bailey

  Night, Tears, Dew

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.55

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• Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, Heaven, Fields

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.34

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• The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.

  Philip James Bailey

  Light, Heaven, Arches

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.34

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• Ask not of me, love, what is love?
  Ask what is good of God above;
  Ask of the great sun what is light;
  Ask what is darkness of the night;
  Ask sin of what may be forgiven;
  Ask what is happiness of heaven;
  Ask what is folly of the crowd;
  Ask what is fashion of the shroud;
  Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;
  Ask of thyself what beauty is.

  Philip James Bailey

  Love, Life, Fashion

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.265

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

  Philip James Bailey

  Country, Heart, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds
  Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart
  Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be.
  Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them,
  Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven.
  All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.

  Philip James Bailey

  Peace, Pain, Kindness

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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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• America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

  Philip James Bailey

  Brother, Land, America

  'Festus' (1839) sc. 10

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• Thou art a woman,
  And that is saying the best and worst of thee.

  Philip James Bailey

  Art, Women, Thee

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.354

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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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• Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

  Philip James Bailey

  Hands, Evil, Left

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.40

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• Death is another life.

  Philip James Bailey

  Death, Life Death, Another Life

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.445

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• I cannot love as I have loved,
  And yet I know not why;
  It is the one great woe of life
  To feel all feeling die.

  Philip James Bailey

  Life, Woe Is Me, Woe Unto

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.265

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