Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! … - Jane Taylor

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Oh that it were my chief delight
To do the things I ought!
Then let me try with all my might
To mind what I am taught.

Jane Taylor

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Jane Taylor (September 23, 1783 – April 13, 1824) was an English poet and novelist. Her sister was Ann Taylor.

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Pen Names: Q.Q.

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Isaac Watts Arthur Hugh Clough William Wordsworth Robert Bridges Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Far from mortal cares retreating,
Sordid hopes and vain desires,
Here, our willing footsteps meeting,
Every heart to heaven aspires.

Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the thinking few!
How many never think, who think they do!

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky!

Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught. - Jane Taylor

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