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Matthew Arnold - To a Republican Friend
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God knows it, I am with you. If to prize
Those virtues, priz`d and practis`d by too few,
But priz`d, but lov`d, but eminent in you,
Man`s fundamental life: if to despise
The barren optimistic sophistries
Of comfortable moles, whom what they do
Teaches the limit of the just and true—
And for such doing have no need of eyes:
If sadness at the long heart-wasting show
Wherein earth`s great ones are disquieted:
If thoughts, not idle, while before me flow
The armies of the homeless and unfed:—
If these are yours, if this is what you are,
Then am I yours, and what you feel, I share.
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