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When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.

— Francis Turner Palgrave Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (1861)

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Our hope is less to last through Art than deeper searching of the heart, than broader range of uttered truth.

Time's corrosive dewdrop eats
The giant warrior to a crust
Of earth in earth and rust in rust.

Let the children play
And sit like flowers upon thy grave
And crown with flowers,—that hardly have
A briefer blooming-tide than they.

Shakespeare's stage must hold the glass to every age.

Can we see thee, and not remember
Thy sun-brown cheek and hair sun-golden,
O sweet September?

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