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This speck of life in time's great wilderness
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
The past, the future, two eternities!
Lalla Rookh (1817)
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
Irish Melodies (1807)
Oh, call it by some better name,
For friendship sounds too cold.
A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Take all the pleasures of all the spheres,
And multiply each through endless years,—
One minute of heaven is worth them all.
Lalla Rookh (1817)
My birthday!—what a different sound
That word had in my youthful ears;
And how each time the day comes round,
Less and less white its mark appears.
So Life's year begins and closes;
Days, though short'ning, still can shine;
What though youth gave love and roses,
Age still leaves us friends and wine.