The Second Best

Matthew Arnold * Track #30 On Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

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The Second Best by Matthew Arnold

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Moderate tasks and moderate leisure,
Quiet living, strict-kept measure
Both in suffering and in pleasure—
&nbsp'Tis for this thy nature yearns.

But so many books thou readest,
But so many schemes thou breedest,
But so many wishes feedest,
&nbspThat thy poor head almost turns.

And (the world's so madly jangled,
Human things so fast entangled)
Nature's wish must now be strangled
&nbspFor that best which she discerns.

So it must be! yet, while leading
A strain'd life, while overfeeding,
Like the rest, his wit with reading,
&nbspNo small profit that man earns,

Who through all he meets can steer him,
Can reject what cannot clear him,
Cling to what can truly cheer him;
&nbspWho each day more surely learns

That an impulse, from the distance
Of his deepest, best existence,
To the words, "Hope, Light, Persistence,"
&nbspStrongly sets and truly burns.

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