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But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will.
But now I only hear
But often in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life.
Calm Soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city’s jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and can not mar.
Calm's not life’s crown, though calm is well.
Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall.
Come to me in my dreams, and then
Come, dear children, let us away;
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great winds shoreward blow, Now the salt tides seaward flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Arnold nasceu em Laleham, Surrey, em 1822. Ele estudou na Rugby School, onde seu pai era diretor, e no Balliol College, Oxford. Em 1843, ele ganhou o Newdigate Prize de poesia. Em 1847, ele se tornou secretário particular do Visconde de Lansdowne. Em 1851, casou-se com Frances Lucy Wightman. Ele foi nomeado professor de poesia em Oxford em 1857. Arnold publicou muitas obras, incluindo "The Strayed Reveller" (1849), "Empedocles on Etna" (1852) e "Sohrab and Rustum" (1853). Ele também escreveu ensaios críticos, como "Essays on Criticism" (1865) e "Culture and Anarchy" (1869). Arnold morreu em Liverpool em 1888, aos 65 anos.