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• Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and…
• And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts…
• He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward…
• This is truth the poet sings . . .
• For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep…
• They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and…
• The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it…
• The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.

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