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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty
is ever charming.
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty
is ever charming.
Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.
Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have read more
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have died away,
And clouds, beneath the glancing ray,
Melt off, and leave the land and sea
Sleeping in bright tranquillity.
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget
it.
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget
it.
He that seekes trouble never misses.
[He that seeks trouble never misses.]
He that seekes trouble never misses.
[He that seeks trouble never misses.]
Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.
Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.
By many indignities we come to dignities.
By many indignities we come to dignities.
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
