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The point is plain as a pike staff.
The point is plain as a pike staff.
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?
Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my read more
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.
A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
May everything he treads upon become a rose!
May everything he treads upon become a rose!
A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.
A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.
