There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONO love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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It’s better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.
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I can’t sleep without knowing there’s hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips… the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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