There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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Her step's mechanic waysHad lost the life of May's;
Her laugh, once sweet in swell,
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. . . that shabby corner of God's allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized infants, notorious drunkards, suicides, and others of the conjecturally damned are laid.
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I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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