Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONAnd the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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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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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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Love is the only gold.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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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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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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