"A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat; A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility,-- Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part."

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"Some asked how pearls did grow, and where? Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and showed them there The quarelets of pearl."

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"I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried."

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"Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones,--come and buy! If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer, there, Where my Julia's lips do smile,-- There 's the land, or cherry-isle."

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"Fall on me like a silent dew, Or like those maiden showers Which, by the peep of day, do strew A baptism o'er the flowers."

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"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying."

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"Thus times do shift,--each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old."

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"Where passion leads or prudence points the way."

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"The soul aspiring pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount."

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"And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace."

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"The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder'd its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth."

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"And not from Nature up to Nature's God, But down from Nature's God look Nature through."

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"He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the Devil in."

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"Sorrows remember'd sweeten present joy."

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"He laid his hand upon "the Ocean's mane," And played familiar with his hoary locks."

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"With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out."

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"He passed a cottage with a double coach-house,-- A cottage of gentility; And he owned with a grin, That his favourite sin Is pride that apes humility."

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"The Satanic School."

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"They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . . . . Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. . . . . . It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there."

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"So I told them in rhyme, For of rhymes I had store."

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"And so never ending, but always descending."

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""But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he; "But 't was a famous victory.""

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"The laws are with us, and God on our side."

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"The march of intellect."

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"How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, or speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night!"

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"And last of all an Admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name,-- A name which you all know by sight very well, But which no one can speak, and no one can spell."

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"Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?"

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"Agreed to differ."

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"Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!"

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"How does the water Come down at Lodore?"

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"What will not woman, gentle woman dare, When strong affection stirs her spirit up?"

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"Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 't is the happy that have called thee so."

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"From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on."

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""You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,-- Now tell me the reason I pray.""

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"A sight to delight in."

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"My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day."

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"And this way the water comes down at Lodore."

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"Through moss and through brake."

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"Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue."

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"And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves."

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"They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

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"Though this may be play to you, 'T is death to us."

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"Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence."

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"We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union."

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"There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed."

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"He serves his party best who serves the country best."

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"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light,--although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."

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"When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday."

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"The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States."

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"No more slave States; no slave Territories."

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