First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
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Knowledge by suffering entereth And Life is perfected by Death.
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Hurt a fly He would not for the world he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''
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And, shining with a gloom, the water grey
Swang in its moon-taught way.
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Still, all day, the iron wheels go onward,
Grinding life down from its mark;
And the children's souls, which God is calling sunward,
Spin on blindly in the dark.
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