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Jean Ingelow
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“Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, / Like marigolds, toward the sunny side.”
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“The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ...”
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“Of the white bears, all in a dim blue world / Mumbling their meals by twilight ... ”
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“... we wish for more in life rather than more of it.”
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“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.”
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“You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?”
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“I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.”
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“I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.”
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“Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.”
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“Tears are the showers that fertilize this world ...”
Jean Ingelow, U.S. poet, writer
(1820 - 1897)