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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

Bayard Taylor

The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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Dank heavy Steam
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Love Old Shall You
Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,– Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,– Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.
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Blue Color Tree
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
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Beautiful Flower Scotland
The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.
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Beautiful Healing Stars
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
I know I am–that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.
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Bliss Brother Missing
With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
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Children Dark Spring
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Annoying Fool Wells
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of ‘creature comforts,’ a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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Comfort Sea Voyages
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
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Experience Heart Men
The glories of the possible are ours.
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Future Glory
The loving are the daring.
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Daring Engagement Love

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