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The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
This Eastertide call into mind the men,
Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should
Have gathered them and will do never again.

— Edward Thomas

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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

There is nothing at the end of any road better than may be found beside it.

To envy a man is to misunderstand him or yourself.

The simple lack
Of her is more to me
Than others' presence.

As well as any bloom upon a flower
I like the dust on the nettles, never lost
Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.

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