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Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust, Your childhood is a bower: Let my fingers wander in the moss Where glows the rosebud Let me among the clean grasses Drink the drops of dew Which sprinkle the tender flower

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Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

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Take eloquence and wring its neck.

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Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!

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Tears fall in my heart As tears fall on the town.

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“MANDOLINE. The courtly serenaders, The beauteous listeners, Sit idling 'neath the branches A balmy zephyr stirs. It's Tircis and Aminta, Clitandre,--ever there!-- Damis, of melting sonnets To many a frosty fair. Their trailing flowery dresses, Their fine beflowered coats, Their elegance and lightness, And shadows blue,--all floats And mingles,--circling, wreathing,…

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“Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul!”

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