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Guido's Aurora
Not with bright forms alone, that please the eye,Aurora comes encircled by the Hours;
Whose feet, in measure, tread the purple sky,
Such forms as love to sport in Summer's bowers;
But nobler forms, for duty's calls sublime,
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Knowing the worth to man of fleeting time,
Nor fearing lest their shining robes they soil.
Their earnest looks are on their business bent,
To finish every task ere day shall fade;
To use each moment for the purpose lent,
Till falls on earth again the evening's shade;
When the day's labors and its noises cease,
And the night brings its gifts of rest and peace.
Poem No. 370; c. July 1879
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