The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONAh, when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro’ all the circle of the golden year?
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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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All things human change.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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I sometimes find it half a sin, to put to words the grief I feel, For words like nature, half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
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We are all a part of every person we have ever met.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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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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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.
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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