If we who have sailed together<br/>Flit out of each other's view,<br/>The world will sail on, I think,<br/>Just as it used to do.
Will Carleton
So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree
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Careful with fire, is good advice, we know: <br/>Careful with words, is ten times doubly so.<br/>Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; <br/>But God himself can't kill them when they're said.
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Underneath an apple-tree<br/>Sat a maiden and her lover; <br/>And the thoughts within her he<br/>Yearned, in silence, to discover.<br/>Round them danced the sunbeams bright,<br/>Green the grass-lawn stretched before them<br/>While the apple blossoms white<br/>Hung in rich profusion o'er them.
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To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
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I've watched my duty, straight an' true,<br/>An' tried to do it well; <br/>Part of the time kept heaven in view,<br/>An' part steered clear of hell.
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We arg'ed the thing at breakfast, we arg'ed the thing at tea, And the more we arg'ed the question, the more we didn't agree
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Worm or beetle -- drought or tempest -- on a farmer's land may fall,<br/>Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.
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Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out.
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If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when<br/>He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.
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I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.
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To appreciate heaven well 'T is good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
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Betsy, like all good women, had a temper of her own.
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Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.
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But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.
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