We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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When, musing on companions gone, We doubly feel ourselves alone.Walter Scott
That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.
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Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
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O fading honours of the dead O high ambition, lowly laid.
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True love 's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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