O May I Join the Choir Invisible! - and Other Favorite Poems

O May I Join the Choir Invisible!, by George Eliot
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Title: O May I Join the Choir Invisible! and Other Favorite Poems
Author: George Eliot
Release Date: March 4, 2007 Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1884 D. Lothrop and Company edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE!
BY
GEORGE ELIOT
AND OTHER FAVORITE POEMS
ILLUSTRATED BOSTON D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY
FRANKLIN AND HAWLEY STREETS
Copyright by D. LOTHROP AND C OMPANY 1884
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O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE!
O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men’s minds To vaster issues. So to live is heaven: To make undying music in the world, Breathing a beauteous order that controls With growing sway the growing life of man. So we inherit ...