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There are gains for all our losses,
There are balms for all our pain:
But when youth, the dream, departs,
It takes something from our hearts,
And it never comes again.

— Richard Henry Stoddard Songs of Summer (1856)

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We love in others what we lack ourselves,
And would be every thing but what we are.

Children are the keys of Paradise.
… They alone are good and wise,
Because their thoughts, their very lives, are prayer.

Songs of Summer (1856)

Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears,
Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!

Silence is the speech of love,
The music of the spheres above.

Songs of Summer (1856)

A face at the window,
A tap on the pane:
Who is it that wants me
To-night in the rain?

The Book of the East and Other Poems (1871)

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