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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
While I plan, and plan, my hair
Is gray before I know it.
While I plan, and plan, my hair
Is gray before I know it.
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
Just staying one day ahead of yesterday.
Just staying one day ahead of yesterday.
Who hastens a glutton choakes him.
Who hastens a glutton choakes him.
Every animal loves itself.
Every animal loves itself.
A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
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!
