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Text of the poem:

['Often rebuked, yet always back returning']
\nBy Emily Bront\xeb
\nOften rebuked, yet always back returning
\n To those first feelings that were born with me,
\nAnd leaving busy chase of wealth and learning
\n For idle dreams of things which cannot be:
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\nTo-day, I will seek not the shadowy region;
\n Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear;

\n Bring the unreal world too strangely near.
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\nI\u2019ll walk, but not in old heroic traces,
\n And not in paths of high morality,
\nAnd not among the half-distinguished faces,
\n The clouded forms of long-past history.
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\nI\u2019ll walk where my own nature would be leading:
\n It vexes me to choose another guide:
\nWhere the gray flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
\n Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side.
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\nWhat have those lonely mountains worth revealing?
\n More glory and more grief than I can tell:
\nThe earth that wakes one human heart to feeling
\n Can centre both the worlds of Heaven and Hell.