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The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
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The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!
Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!
He is the least in want who is the least covetous.
He is the least in want who is the least covetous.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Nature never says one thing, and science another.
Nature never says one thing, and science another.
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.
I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the
nut.
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the
nut.
