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When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, :What life, what glorious eagerness it is, :Then mark how full Possession falls from this, How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit,— I am perplext, and often stricken mute. :Wondering which attained the higher bliss, :The winged insect, or the chrysalis It thrust aside with unreluctant foot.
When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, :What life, what glorious eagerness it is, :Then mark how full Possession falls from this, How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit,— I am perplext, and often stricken mute. :Wondering which attained the higher bliss, :The winged insect, or the chrysalis It thrust aside with unreluctant foot.
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- T. B. Aldrich (identity unresolved)
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Printed page 615 · quotation 1 · T. B. Aldrich · Sonnet. Pursuit and Possession.
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