Life is a chase, And man the hunter, always following on, W… - Lewis Morris

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Life is a chase,
And man the hunter, always following on,
With hounds of rushing thought or fiery sense,
Some hidden truth or beauty, fleeting still
For ever through the thick-leaved coverts deep
And wind-worn wolds of life.

Lewis Morris

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Sir Lewis Morris (23 January 1833 – 12 November 1907) was a popular poet of the Anglo-Welsh school.

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John Greenleaf Whittier Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry van Dyke John Dryden Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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Sweet maidenhood! that to a silvery chime
Of music, and chaste fancies undefiled,
And modest grace and mild
Comëst, best gift of God to men.

Sound, jocund strains; on pipe and viol sound,
Young voices sing;
Wreathe every door with snow-white garlands round,
For lo! 'tis Spring!
Winter has passed with its sad funeral train,
And hope revives again.

Rest springs from strife and dissonant chords beget
Divinest harmonies.

Life is a chase, And man the hunter, always following on, With hounds of rushing thought or fiery sense, Some hidden truth or beauty, fleeting still … - Lewis Morris

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