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 TENNYSONI 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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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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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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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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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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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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