Happiness We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.
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There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing Of old random jottings set down in a blank book You've unearthed from a drawer as you looked for your bank book.Amy Lowell
Indeed,
Or you, or I, are mad.
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Ashes of roses,
ashes of youth.
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The blue crest of the distant mountain, tops
The green crest of the hill on which I sit;
And it is summer, glorious, deep-toned summer,
The very crown of nature's changing year
When all her surging life is at its full.
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See, it is silver, and here is the blue.
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Can a river flow when the spring is dry?
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