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It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the read more
It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.
 But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
 If bent on groaning ever for the past?  
 But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
 If bent on groaning ever for the past? 
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
 O, to bring back the great Homeric time,
 The simple manners and the deed sublime:
  When the read more 
 O, to bring back the great Homeric time,
 The simple manners and the deed sublime:
  When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate,
   Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight. 
 Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
 But what has been, has been, and I have had my read more 
 Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
 But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. 
 Weep no more, lady, weep no more,
 Thy sorrowe is in vaine,
  For violets pluckt, the sweetest read more 
 Weep no more, lady, weep no more,
 Thy sorrowe is in vaine,
  For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers
   Will ne'er make grow againe. 
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
The best of prophets of the future is the past.