Breeze Quote by Henry Abbey

“Our yesterdays Are like a lonely and a ruined land Wherein a breeze of recollection sighs-- A fading land to which is no return.”

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Breeze Fading Land Lonely Past Recollection Return Ruined Sigh Yesterday

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The end we know not; but we wander on, Down the regretful wilderness of time.

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Life is the wave's deep whisper on the shore Of a great sea beyond.

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The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.

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Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: They sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.

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Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay!

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All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.

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