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• I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
• I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can…
• How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree
• Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.
• Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.
• I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.
• The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.
• I am the self-consumer of my woes,
• I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.
• I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seemes careless of having anything…
• My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
• Summer is a prodigal of joy. The grass Swarms with delighted insects as I pass, And crowds of grasshoppers at every stride…

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