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Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest read more
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.
He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Beauty drawes more then oxen.
Beauty drawes more then oxen.
The very rats
Instinctively had quit it.
The very rats
Instinctively had quit it.
Yeeres know more then bookes.
Yeeres know more then bookes.
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
But neither bended knees, pure hands held up,
Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears,
Could penetrate read more
But neither bended knees, pure hands held up,
Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears,
Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire.
