I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.
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O pale green sea,With long, pale, purple clouds above -
What lies in me like weight of love ?
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And in a chair well-knownMy mother sat, and did not tireWith reading all alone.If I should make the slightest soundTo show that I'm awake,She'd rise, and lap the blankets round,My pillow softly shakeKiss me, and turn my face to seeThe shadows on the wall,
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Scarcely a tear to shedHardly a word to sayThe end of a Summer's daySweet Love is dead.
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History of Ireland -- lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere -- no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it.
William Allingham
Then spare the wayside flower!
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