As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
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Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars; Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven.Algernon Charles Swinburne
The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
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Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
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Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise.
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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
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