The hills look over on the South, And Southward dreams the sea; And with the sea-breeze hand in hand, Came innocence and she.
Francis Thompson
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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Happiness is the shadow of things past, <br/>Wich fools still take for that which is to be!
happiness past shadow things fools
The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitternessTo her who loved the rose.
loss grief yearning
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.
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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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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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Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan, For we are born in other's pain, And perish in our own.
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An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
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Short arm needs man to reach to Heaven, So ready is Heaven to stoop to him.
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I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter.
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dreams innocence
For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
pain
The drift of pinions, would we hearken, Beats at our own clay-shuttered doors.
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