THE OLD STOIC
by: Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
- ICHES
I hold in light esteem,
- And Love I laugh to scorn;
- And lust of fame was but a dream
- That vanish'd with the morn:
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- And, if I pray, the only prayer
- That moves my lips for me
- Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear,
- And give me liberty!'
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- Yea, as my swift days near their goal,
- 'Tis all that I implore:
- In life and death a chainless soul,
- With courage to endure.
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