That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
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The steam; Floats up from those dim fields about the homes; Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.Alfred Lord Tennyson
There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.
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All along the valley, stream that flashest white.
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Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.
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The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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