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No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.

It smelt so faint, and it smelt so sweet, It made me creep and it made me cold. Like the scent that steals from the crumbling sheet Where a mummy is half unroll'd.

And the jasmine flower in her fair young breast, And the one bird singing alone to his nest. And the one star over the tower.

No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.

What's saved affords No indication of what's lost.

In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.

Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low; 'Tis a sweet little species that lives but one hour, And the eldest was born half an hour ago.

News, news, news, my gossiping friends, I have wonderful news to tell, A lady by me her compliments sends; And this is the news from Hell!

There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish.

When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

Who seeks for aid Must show how service sought can be repaid.

Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?

The sylphs and ondines And the sea-kings and queens Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city, As lovely as seems To some bard in his dreams, The soul of his latest love-ditty.

God be thank'd that the dead have left still Good undone for the living to do-- Still some aim for the heart and the will And the soul of a man to pursue.