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"If she but smile, the crystal calm shall break In music, sweeter than it ever gave, As when a breeze breathes oer some sleeping lake, And laughs in every wave."
Bayard TaylorThunder-spasms the waking be — Bayard Taylor
"Thunder-spasms the waking be Into Life from Apathy: Life, not Death, is in the gale, — Let the coming Doom prevail!"
Bayard Taylor
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Bayard Taylor was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. As a poet, he was very popular, with a crowd of more than 4,000 attending a poetry reading once, which was a record that stood for 85 years. His travelogues were popular in both the United States and Great Britain. He served in diplomatic posts in Russia and Prussia.
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