The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
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Chapter 22 THE SAME CONTINUED 22

Therefore think not the Past is wise alone,

For Yesterday knows nothing of the Best,

And thou shalt love it only as the nest

Whence glory-wingèd things to Heaven have flown:

To the great Soul only are all things known;

Present and future are to her as past,

While she in glorious madness doth forecast

That perfect bud, which see

            
            

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