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Let go the lure
The striving to unmake; Behold the truth
Whenever heart may ache
There is a glory
In a great mistake.

— Nathalia Crane Swear By the Night and Other Poems (1936)

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A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth,
But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth.

The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes,
Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.

The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

The world is growing gentle,
But few know what she owes
To the understanding lily
And the judgment of the rose.

Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)

The rose has told In one simplicity.
That never life
Relinquishes a bloom
But to bestow
An ancient confidence.

Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)

Every gaudy color
Is a bit of truth.

The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

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