Laurel is green for a season, And love is sweet for a day But love grows bitter with treason, And laurel outlives not May.
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Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.Algernon Charles Swinburne
Pale, beyond porch and portal, Crowned with calm leaves, she stands, Who gathers all things mortal With cold immortal hands.
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Here, where the world is quiet Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds' and spent waves' riot In doubtful dreams of dreams.
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For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins.
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A blatant Bassarid of Boston, a rampant Maenad of Massachusetts.
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A little soul for a little bears up this corpse which is man.
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