Thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling of a star. - Francis Thompson

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Thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling of a star.

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About Francis Thompson

Francis Joseph Thompson (December 18, 1859 – November 13, 1907) was an English poet and Catholic mystic.

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In the rash lustihead of my young powers,
I shook the pillaring hours
And pulled my life upon me; grimed with smears,
I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years—
My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap.
My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.

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