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The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time
The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told read more
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"
 E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow
 That innocence can give,
  When its resistless accents flow
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 E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow
 That innocence can give,
  When its resistless accents flow
   To bid affection live. 
He's armed without that's innocent within.
He's armed without that's innocent within.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
 An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay,
 And glides in modest innocence away.  
 An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay,
 And glides in modest innocence away. 
 O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence
 Love takes the meaning in love's conference.  
 O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence
 Love takes the meaning in love's conference. 
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.