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James  Baldwin

“Why are we weighed upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown: Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm; Nor hearken what the inner spirit sings, "There is no joy but calm!" Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things?”

James Baldwin, Six Centuries of English Poetry from Tennyson to Chaucer: Typical Selections from the Great Poets
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Six Centuries of English Poetry from Tennyson to Chaucer: Typical Selections from the Great Poets Six Centuries of English Poetry from Tennyson to Chaucer: Typical Selections from the Great Poets by James Baldwin
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