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Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket cheering cheerily,
Nor grasshopper so light of leap,
Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat,
Nor harmless worms that creep.

— Christina Rossetti Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (1915)

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Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

All earth’s full rivers can not fill
The sea that drinking thirsteth still.

Cheek to cheek and breast to breast
Lock’d together in one nest.

Like two wands of ivory
Tipp’d with gold for awful kings.

Goblin Market (1862)

One day in the country
Is worth a month in town.

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