The day beats you down
But it doesn’t break you
You forge on
And you forge on
Through the forest
Of your daily struggles
You still find flowers
Like gifts from God
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My poem on what’s been happening in Bangladesh over the last couple weeks (where I live). Enjoy:
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Oh silvery streamlet of the fields,
That flowest full and free!
For thee the rains of spring return,
The summer dews for thee;
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Among the heathy hills and ragged woods
The roaring Fyers pours his mossy floods;
Till full he dashes on the rocky mounds,
Where, thro' a shapeless breach, his stream resounds,
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The tranquil sea, she calls to me
To tell me of her mysteries
To tell me of forgotten truths
Of her old stories believed in youth
She sings to me as angels do
A soft, low hum, a seagull’s coo…
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Tonight a shimmer of gold lies mantled o'er
Smooth lovely Ocean. Through the lustrous gloom
A savor steals from linden trees in bloom
And gardens ranged at many a palace door.
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Though fickle Fortune has deceived me,
She promis'd fair and perform'd but ill;
Of mistress, friends, and wealth bereav'd me,
Yet I bear a heart shall support me still.
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On Gold
All-ruling tyrant of the earth,
To vilest slaves I owe my birth,
How is the greatest monarch blest,
When in my gaudy livery drest!
No haughty nymph has power to run
From me; or my embraces shun.
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I fly over open plains
And over ocean waves
I cut over mountain tops
And icy tundra lanes
I bring the rain, and I bring the snow
The shaded earth is all I know
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The pines were dark on Ramoth hill,
Their song was soft and low;
The blossoms in the sweet May wind
Were falling like the snow.
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As through the street at eve we went
(It might be half-past ten),
We fell out, my friend and I,
About the cube of x+y,
And made it up again.
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When the world, it seems, has lain her load
On your delicate, lissome soul
When the path you walk has gone from paved
To a debris of aimless holes
And when that wondrous map of heaven
Seems a dark and vacuous bowl
Remember you’re a paradise
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Small, busy flames play through the fresh laid coals,
And their faint cracklings o'er our silence creep
Like whispers of the household gods that keep
A gentle empire o'er fraternal souls.
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Through blinding storm and clouds of night,
We swiftly pushed our restless flight;
With thundering hoof and warning neigh,
We urged our steed upon his way
Up the line.
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"Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have sat us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!
"But ranged as infantry,
And staring face to face,
I shot at him as he at me,
And killed him in his place.
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The pride of all our chivalry,
The name of Worth will stand,
While throbs the pulse of liberty
Within his native land:
The wreath his brow was formed to wear,
A nation's tears will freshen there.
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Where shall we bury our shame?
Where, in what desolate place,
Hide the last wreck of a name
Broken and stained by disgrace?
Death may dissever the chain,
Oppression will cease when we're gone;
But the dishonor, the stain,
Die as we may, will live on.
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Fear ye not the stormy future, for the Battle Hymn is strong,
And the armies of Australia shall not march without a song;
The glorious words and music of Australia's song shall come
When her true hearts rush together at the beating of a drum.
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The fire burns especially for you
You, who have shored our lands with might and power
And represented all our strength abroad
And forced our foes to shrink back and to cower
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