Pale, beyond porch and portal, Crowned with calm leaves, she stands, Who gathers all things mortal With cold immortal hands.
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In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, Walled round with rocks as an inland island, The ghost of a garden fronts the sea.Algernon Charles Swinburne
A little soul for a little bears up this corpse which is man.
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His speech is a burning fire.
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I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and queen, be near me now and befriend.
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Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise.
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For in the days we know not of Did fate begin Weaving the web of days that wove Your doom.
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