Quote#Speech
All, wherein I have part
Quote byBayard Taylor · 1825–1878
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Guests of Night (1871), st. 3 - 4, in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1907), p. 314..
English (original)
All, wherein I have part, All that was loss or gain, Slips from the clasping heart, Breaks from the grasping brain. Lo, what is left? I am bare As a new-born soul, — I am naught: My deeds are dust in air, My words are ghosts of thought. I ride through the night alone, Detached from the life that seemed, And the best I have felt or known Is less than the least I dreamed.
— Bayard Taylor
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