Poetry: Past, Present And Future
"Look not mournfully into the Past - it romes not back pain wiwly improve the Pmwrnt - it ii ihine; go forth to meet the hadowv Futurb, without fear and with a manly iicart." - LoNorRixow. Let not the Bhadows of the Past Their shadows o'er jou flinef,- Of tnonieHts fur too bright to last, Darkenod by aorrow'e wing; Of joys vrhiclrfrom youlong havefll, Oh! do not think with pain; Pait Sorrowt, Joy6 and Fcars are dead - Tliey come not bnek again. ' Improve the Present- it is thine? The momonts will not stay; And rownd thino inmo3t spirit twin T!j flowers that ne'er decay - The flower of friendship nd of 1ot, Of inocnce nnd tnith, Brijjht spirits! sent froni realma abpre To guand perpetual jouth! Oh! ne' er indulge in darksom feara. Let Hopè's rny'i fillthe breas'; Gire not thooght to aftor year - "All th'ingt comà for the bet:" Judfre not the Futuro by the Past, Whate'or thy ëorrow be; But calmly trust that thou at lust Shall be from gorro w ire!
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Didactic Poetry
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Old News
Signal of Liberty
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow