As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows Useless each without the other
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The Battle of our Life is brietThe alarm,--the struggle,--the relief,
Then sleep we side by side.
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All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''
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Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And with them the Being Beauteous,
Who unto my youth was given,
More than all things else to love me,
And is now a saint in heaven.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beside the ungathered rice he lay. His sickle in his hand.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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