I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.

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This could but have happened once,
And we missed it, lost it forever.

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If two lives join, there is oft a scar.
They are one and one, with a shadowy third;
One near one is too far.

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The ultimate, angels' law,
Indulging every instinct of the soul
There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

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How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ
All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

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For life, with all it yields of joy and woe,
And hope and fear (believe the aged friend),
Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.

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Pippa's Song
The year's at the spring,
The day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearl'd;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His heaven—
All's right with the world!

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In Life's small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate
Thy measure takes or when she'll say to thee,
'I find thee worthy; do this deed for me'?

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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet
Lessen like sound of friends' departing feet;
And Death is beautiful as feet of friend
Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
For me Fate gave, whate'er she else denied,
A nature sloping to the southern side;
I thank her for it, though when clouds arise
Such natures double-darken gloomy skies.

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In this world a man must be either anvil or hammer.

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