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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time--
To let the punishment fit the crime.
My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time--
To let the punishment fit the crime.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.
Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.
I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.
Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.
