I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep; Of what may come hereafter; For men that sow and reap.
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Ah that such sweet things should be fleet, Such fleet things sweet.Algernon Charles Swinburne
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
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Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow, How can thine heart be full of the spring A thousand summers are over and dead. What hast thou found in the spring to follow What hast thou found in thine heart to sing.
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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.
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Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
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Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean the world has grown grey from thy breath; We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death.
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