The chambers in the house of dreams Are fed with so divine an air, That Time's hoary wings grow young therein, And they who walk there are most fair.
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The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine, Moves all the labouring surges of the world.Francis Thompson
The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
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Know you what it is to be a child It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul.
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The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.
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Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
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All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
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