When in their councils over all
Men set the power that sells and buys,
Be sure the price of life will fall,
Death be more precious in our eyes.
(The Iron Age)
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I would not have the love of lips and eyes,The ancient ways of love:
But in my heart I built a Paradise,
A nest there for the dove.
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Oh light our life in Babylon, but Babylon has taken wings,
While we are in the calm and proud procession of eternal things.
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Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
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We bade adieu to love the old;
We heard another lover then,
Whose forms are myriad and untold,
Sigh to us from the hearts of men.
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Do not ask for the hands of love or love's soft eyes:
They give less than love who give all, giving what wanes.
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Not the soul that's whitest
Wakens love the sweetest:
When the heart is lightest
Oft the charm is fleetest.
George William Russell
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