The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
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Cloud-walls of the morning's grey,
Faced with amber column,---
Crowned with crimson cupola
From a sunset solemn!
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And, shining with a gloom, the water grey
Swang in its moon-taught way.
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Life treads on life, and heart on heart We press too close in church and mart, To keep a dream or grave apart
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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
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