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His friends he loved. His fellest earthly foes—
Cats—I believe he did but feign to hate.
My hand will miss the insinuated nose,
Mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate.

— William Watson Epigrams of Art, Life, and Nature (1884)

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Sea that breakest for ever, that breakest and never art broken.

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Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

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Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.

The stars of heaven are free because
In amplitude of liberty
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