And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
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Oh, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine played, Is that congealing pang which seizes The trusting bosom, when betrayed.Thomas Moore
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
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Yet still thy features wore that light,
Which fleets not with the breath;
And life ne'er look'd more truly bright
Than in thy smile of death, Mary!
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Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
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There 's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream.
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