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With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

Bayard Taylor

Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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Glee Ocean Swelling
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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Cities Foundation World
The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Streams Wells Wisdom
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Love Old Shall You
The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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Poet Process Years
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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Afar Emotion Soil
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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Ascent Olives
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Observation People
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Annoying Fool Wells
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
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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Childhood Desire Long

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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