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A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

The moon looks upon many night flowers the night flowers see but one moon.

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes they turn Like marigolds toward the sunny side.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.

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Jean Ingelow

Poet

Born: 1820-03-17

Died: 1897-07-20

Jean Ingelow (March 17, 1820 – July 20, 1897) was an English poet and novelist.More