Love is better than Fame.
BAYARD TAYLORSwelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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Fame is what you have taken, / Character’s what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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I know I am–that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.
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Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
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We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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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!
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