It was as though we saw the Secret Will,
It was as though we floated and were free;
In the south-west a planet shone serenely,
And the high moon, most reticent and queenly,
Seeing the earth had
darkened
and grown still,
Misted with light the meadows of the sea.
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Indeed, indeed,
Repentance
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"My
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"My 'kerchief there I hem;
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Now there are Goody Cloyse and Goody Good,
Who have not got a decent tooth between them,
And yet these children--the
Afflicted
Children--
Say that they bite them, and show marks of teeth
Upon their arms!
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When the flesh that
nourished
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Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God absolves us all.
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Dhorme _Choix de Textes
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The quiet voice that always counselled best,
The mind that so ironically played
Yet for mere
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of, which see; hence it
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che tanto 270
Passer mai solitario in alcun tetto 201
Perche al viso d' Amor portava insegna 57
Perche la vita e breve 68
Perche quel che mi trasse ad amar prima 60
Perch' io t' abbia guardato di menzogna 49
Per far una leggiadra sua vendetta 2
Per mezzo i boschi inospiti e selvaggi 163
Per mirar Policleto a prova fiso 80
Perseguendomi Amor al luogo usato 103
Piangete, donne, e con voi pianga Amore 90
Pien di quella ineffabile dolcezza 107
Pien d' un vago pensier, che me desvia 159
Piovonmi amare lagrime dal viso 14
Piu di me lieta non si vede a terra 25
Piu volte Amor m' avea gia detto: scrivi 91
Piu volte gia dal bel sembiante umano 160
Po, ben puo' tu portartene la scorza 166
Poco era ad appressarsi agli occhi miei 53
Poiche la vista angelica serena 242
Poi che 'l cammin m' e chiuso di mercede 129
Poi che mia speme e lunga a venir troppo 87
Poiche per mio destino 76
Poi che voi ed io piu volte abbiam provato 94
Pommi ove 'l sol occide i fiori e l' erba 142
Qual donna attende a gloriosa fama 225
Qual mio destin, qual forza o qual inganno 198
Qual paura ho, quando mi torna a mente 217
Qual piu diversa e nova 133
Qual ventura mi fu, quando dall' uno 205
Quand' io mi volgo indietro a mirar gli anni 258
Quand' io movo i sospiri a chiamar voi 5
Quand' io son tutto volto in quella parte 15
Quand' io veggio dal ciel scender l' Aurora 252
Quand' io v' odo parlar si dolcemente 141
Quando Amor i begli occhi a terra inchina 158
Quando dal proprio sito si rimove 44
Quando fra l' altre donne ad ora ad ora 11
Quando giugne per gli occhi al cor profondo 92
Quando giunse a Simon l' alto concetto 81
Quando il soave mio fido conforto 305
Quando 'l pianeta che distingue l' ore 8
Quando 'l sol bagna in mar l' aurato carro 199
Quando 'l voler, che con duo sproni ardenti 144
Quando mi vene innanzi il tempo e 'l loco 163
Quanta invidia ti porto, avara terra 259
Quante fiate al mio dolce ricetto 245
Quanto piu disiose l' ali spando 138
Quanto piu m' avvicino al giorno estremo 35
Quel, che d' odore e di color vincea 295
Quel ch' infinita providenza ed arte 4
Quel che 'n Tessaglia ebbe le man si pronte 46
Quel foco, ch' io pensai che fosse spento 57
Quella fenestra, ove l' un sol si vede 95
Quell' antiquo mio dolce empio signore 307
Quella per cui con Sorga ho cangiat' Arno 265
Quelle pietose rime, in ch' io m' accorsi 111
Quel rosignuol che si soave piagne 268
Quel sempre acerbo ed onorato giorno 151
Quel sol che mi mostrava il cammin destro 264
Quel vago, dolce, caro, onesto sguardo 286
Quel vago impallidir che 'l dolce riso 113
Questa Fenice dell' aurata piuma 169
Quest' anima gentil che si diparte 35
Questa umil fera, un cor di tigre o d' orsa 148
Questro nostro caduco e fragil bene 293
Qui dove mezzo son, Sennuccio mio 105
Rapido fiume che d' alpestra vena 189
Real natura, angelico intelletto 211
Rimansi addietro il sestodecim' anno 108
Ripensando a quel ch' oggi il ciel onora 298
Rotta e l' alta Colonna e 'l verde Lauro 235
S' Amore o Morte non da qualche stroppio 44
S' Amor non e, che dunque e quel ch' i' sento 130
S' Amor novo consiglio non n' apporta 242
Se al principio risponde il fine e 'l mezzo 81
Se bianche non son prima ambe le tempie 85
Se col cieco desir che 'l cor distrugge 57
Se lamentar angelli, o verdi fronde 243
Se la mia vita dall' aspro tormento 10
Se 'l dolce sguardo di costei m' ancide 168
Se 'l onorata fronde, che prescrive 24
Se 'l pensier che mi strugge 114
Se 'l sasso ond' e piu chiusa questa valle 107
Se mai foco per foco non si spense 49
Sennuccio, i' vo' che sappi in qual maniera 104
Sennuccio mio, benche doglioso e solo 249
Sento l' aura mia antica, e i dolci colli 274
Se quell' aura soave de' sospiri 249
Se Virgilio ed Omero avessin visto 170
Se voi poteste per turbati segni 63
Si breve e 'l tempo e 'l pensier si veloce 247
Siccome eterna vita e veder Dio 173
Si e debile il filo a cui s' attene 40
Signor mio caro, ogni pensier mi tira 231
S' il dissi mai, ch' i' venga in odio a quella 183
S' io avessi pensato che si care 254
S' io
credessi
per morte essere scarce 39
S' io fossi stato fermo alia spelunca 157
Si tosto come avvien che l' arco scocchi 87
Si traviato e 'l folle mio desio 5
Solea dalla fontana di mia vita 287
Solea lontana in sonno consolarme 218
Soleano i miei pensier soavemente 250
Soleasi nel mio cor star bella e viva 255
Solo e pensoso i piu deserti campi 38
Son animali al mondo di si altera 16
S' onesto amor puo meritar mercede 291
Spinse amor e dolor ore ir non debbe 300
Spirto felice, che si dolcemente 316
Spirto gentil che quelle membra reggi 54
Standomi un giorno solo alia finestra 277
Stiamo, Amor, a veder la gloria nostra 174
S' una fede amorosa, un cor non finto 200
Tacer non posso, e temo non adopre 280
Tempo era omai da trovar pace o tregua 272
Tennemi Amor anni ventuno ardendo 314
Tornami a mente, anzi v' e dentro quella 293
Tranquillo porto avea mostrato Amore 273
Tra quantunque leggiadre donne e belle 196
Tutta la mia fiorita e verde etade 271
Tutto 'l di piango; e poi la notte, quando 195
Una candida cerva sopra l' erba 172
Una donna piu bella assai che 'l sole 108
Vago augelletto che cantando vai 317
Valle che de' lamenti miei se' piena 260
Verdi panni, sanguigni, oscuri o persi 32
Vergine bella che di sol vestita 318
Vergognando talor ch' ancor si taccia 16
Vidi fra mille donne una gia tale 292
Vincitore Alessandro l' ira vinse 205
Vinse Annibal, e non seppe usar poi 98
Vive faville uscian de' duo bei lumi 223
Voglia mi sprona; Amor mi guida e scorge 191
Voi, ch' ascoltate in rime sparse il suono 1
Volgendo gli occhi al mio novo colore 63
Volo con l' ali de' pensieri al cielo 313
Zefiro torna, e 'l bel tempo rimena 266
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That near at hand was
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A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,
B lackbirds too shake theirs then as they sing,
R eceiving their mates,
mingling
their plumage,
O, as the desires it lights in me now rage,
I 'd offer you, joyously, what befits the lover.
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How solemn, as one by one,
As the ranks returning, all worn and sweaty--as the men file by where I
stand;
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masks;
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Amongst the Trial Men,
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For weal or woe again.
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"Because," said he, "They come weeping and go weeping--you only
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Again the woods are odorous, the lark
Lifts on upsoaring wings the heaven gray
That hung above the tree-tops, veiled and dark,
Where branches bare
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Fire and Wine Grant Richards (London) 1913
The Dominant City Max Goschen (London) 1913
Fool's Gold Max Goschen (London) 1913
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'One
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He,
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TO LIFE
O LIFE with the sad seared face,
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And thy draggled cloak, and thy
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I was reared in the land of the Gauls;
O'er the Rhine my
ancestors
came bounding like balls
Of the snow at the Pole, where, a babe, I was bathed
Ere in bear and in walrus-skin I was enswathed.
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And now, the rising gale
Invites the heroes, and demands the sail,
When brave
Magricio
thus his peers address'd,
'Oh, friends in arms, of equal powers confess'd,
Long have I hop'd through foreign climes to stray,
Where other streams than Douro wind their way;
To note what various shares of bliss and woe
From various laws and various customs flow;
Nor deem that, artful, I the fight decline;
England shall know the combat shall be mine.
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thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
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As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
Mountains of water now set in motion,
A thousand breakers of cliff-jarring ocean,
Striking the reef, driven in the wind's maw:
View now a fierce northerly, with emotion,
Stirring the storm to its loud-whistling core,
Then folding in air its vaster wing once more
Suddenly weary, as if at some new notion:
As we see a flame, spread in a hundred places,
Gather, in one flare, towards heaven's spaces,
Then powerless fade and die: so, in its day,
This Empire passed, and
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all
Like wave, or wind, or flame, along its way,
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Then, 'twas before my time, the Roman
At yonder heaving hill would stare:
The blood that warms an English yeoman,
The
thoughts
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With slow
reluctant
feet and weary eyes Kore And eyelids heavy with the coming sleep,
With small breasts lifted up in stress of sighs,
She passed as shadows pass amid the sheep
While the earth dreamed and only I was ware Of that faint fragrance blown from her soft hair.
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Pert and
precocious
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The world heaved--
we are next to the sky:
over us, sea-hawks shout,
gulls sweep past--
the
terrible
breakers are silent
from this place.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Io Hymen
Hymenaee
io,
io Hymen Hymenaee.
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Tis
pleasant
in these quiet lonely places,
Where not the voice of man our pleasure mars,
To see the little bees with coal black faces
Gathering sweets from little flowers like stars.
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For doubt is none that by the work of soul
Exist in us this sense, and when by slumber
That sense is thwarted, we are bound to think
The soul confounded and expelled abroad--
Yet not entirely, else the frame would lie
Drenched
in the everlasting cold of death.
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--more like an out-of-tune
Worn viol, a good singer would be wroth
To spoil his song with, and which,
snatched
in haste,
Is laid down at the first ill-sounding note.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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His horse he's spurred, the clear blood issued;
He's
gallopped
on, over a ditch he's leapt,
Full fifty feet a man might mark its breadth.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Charles the Great weeps
therefor
with regret.
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Chanson de Roland |
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No heart there is so hard, so cold no will,
By true tears, fervent prayers, and
faithful
love
That will not deign at length to melt and move.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Pengya: A Ballad 351 Half the past ten days it had thundered and rained, 16 we pulled each other along through the mud and mire.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Imagists |
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I pull in Resolution, and begin
To doubt th'
Equiuocation
of the Fiend,
That lies like truth.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Among the beds of lilies I
Have sought it oft where it should lie,
Yet could not, till itself would rise,
Find it,
although
before mine eyes.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Ein Knieband
zeichnet
mich nicht aus,
Doch ist der Pferdefuss hier ehrenvoll zu Haus.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Two early night-winged
butterflies
together
Be-chase themselves from halm to halm in jest,
The balk prepares from out the shrubs and weather,
The balm of evening for the soul distressed.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Whose smile can make a poet, and your glance
Dash all bad poems out of countenance;
So that an author needs no other bays
For coronation than your only praise,
And no one
mischief
greater than your frown
To null his numbers, and to blast his crown.
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Robert Herrick |
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Immediately lamps were lighted and
servants
began moving about.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Suspendam
cor tuis aris!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Now here, now there, the shot it hailed
In deadly drifts of fiery spray,
Yet not a single soldier quailed
When wounded
comrades
round them wailed
Their dying shout at Monterey.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought;
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with
pleasure
fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
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Golden Treasury |
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old sot, your lips already
licking!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Scyros desert abides: they quit Phthiotican Tempe, 35
Homesteads of Crannon-town, eke
bulwarkt
walls of Larissa;
Meeting at Pharsalus, and roof Pharsalian seeking.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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At mating time the hippo's voice
Betrays
inflexions
hoarse and odd,
But every week we hear rejoice
The Church, at being one with God.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Thy homely help render,
Incubus!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But luckless Fortune's northern storms
Laid a' my
blossoms
low, O!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Out in the evening roam,
Out from thy room thou know'st in every part,
And far in the dim
distance
leave thy home,
Whosoever thou art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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O father and mother if buds are nipped,
And
blossoms
blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care's dismay,--
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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At last they mount on their swift
coursing
steeds.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Thou may'st restore
The son in safety to his native shore;
While the fell foes, who late in ambush lay,
With fraud
defeated
measure back their way.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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[406] {633} The reader will recollect the epigram of the Greek
anthology, or its
translation
into most of the modern languages--
"Whoe'er thou art, thy master see--
He was, or is, or is to be.
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Byron |
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There
Was
twilight
dim, that far long the gloom
Mine eye advanc'd not: but I heard a horn
Sounded aloud.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The land lay steeped in peace of silent dreams, There was no sound amid the sacred boughs Nor any
mournful
music in her streams,
Only I saw the shadow on her brows,
Only I knew her for the Yearly Slain
And wept, and weep until she come again.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
The Nightingale was not yet heard, for the Rose was not yet blown: but
an almost
identical
Blackbird and Woodpecker helped to make up
something of a North-country Spring.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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