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Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar.
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, / And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.
Make us, not fly to dreams, but moderate desire.
Man errs not that he deems / His welfare his true aim, / He errs because he dreams / The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.
Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, / To lead those false who trust it.
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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.