James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
A Glance Behind the Curtain (1843)
“The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made;
Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view,
That stand upon the threshold of the new.”
On the Divine Poems (1686). Compare: "To vanish in the chinks that Time has made", Samuel Rogers, Pæstum; "As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind
Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)
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“To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.”
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Epilogue
Hawthorn and Lavender (1901)
Context: A people, haggard with defeat,
Asks if there be a God; yet sets its teeth,
Faces calamity, and goes into the fire
Another than it was. And in wild hours
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Sheds its old piddling aims,
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Have leave to strive, and suffer, and achieve.
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1960, The New Frontier
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