On the approaching close of The Great Exhibition And other poems. By The Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley |
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Lo! the filings and the raspings of our scarce-considered Time,—We should prize them all, and put them all to rightful use sublime:
For these moments of our leisure,
They are rich as royal treasure,
If we make them silver steps wherewith to heavenly heights to climb.
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There is work for strenuous hands to do, for strenuous thoughts and brains,—And for the earnest heart to guide itself, and hold itself in chains;
For if ye are not assiduous,
Step by step your Foe invidious
Shall pursue his deadly march, and make ye rue his blights and banes.
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