Response
Beside that milestone where the level sun, Nigh unto setting, sheds his last, low rays On word and work irrevocably done, Lifes blending threads of good and ill outspun, I hear, O friends! your words of cheer and praise, Half doubtful if myself or otherwise. Like him who, in the old Arabian joke, A beggar slept and crowned Caliph woke. Thanks not the less. With not unglad surprise I see my life-work through your partial eyes; Assured, in giving to my home-taught songs A higher value than of right belongs, You do but read between the written lines The finer grace of unfulfilled designs
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"Beside that milestone where the level sun,..."
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