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If thou would'st have me sing and play
As once I play'd and sung,
First take this time-worn lute away,
And bring one freshly strung.

— Thomas Moore Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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But there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.

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Though an angel should write, still 't is devils must print.

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And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

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Just as the mind the erring sense believes,
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Go where glory waits thee,
But while fame elates thee,
Oh! still remember me!

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