Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy co… - Arthur Hugh Clough

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Come back again, old heart! Ah me!
Methinks in those thy coward fears
There might, perchance, a courage be,
That fails in these the manlier years;
Courage to let the courage sink,
Itself a coward base to think,
Rather than not for heavenly light
Wait on to show the truly right.

Arthur Hugh Clough

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Arthur Hugh Clough (January 1, 1819 – November 13, 1861) was an English poet, and the brother of Anne Clough.

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Each for himself is still the rule
We learn it when we go to school—
The devil take the hindmost, O!

And almost every one when age,
Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like Him.

There is no God," the wicked saith,
"And truly it's a blessing,
For what He might have done with us
It's better only guessing.

Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Co… - Arthur Hugh Clough

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