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- I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.
- When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have…
- When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of…
- When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly…
- How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that…
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