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The hours will hardly forgive you, those hours that are wearing away the days, those days that are gnawing away the years.

— Luis de Góngora

Mal te perdonarán a ti las horas;
las horas que limando están los días,
los días que royendo están los años.

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Life is a wounded stag in whom the fast-stuck arrows function as wings.

Longer than a winter's night for a man who is ill-wed.

Let me go warm and merry still;
And let the world laugh, an' it will.

Feathers are Love's most fitting battle-ground.

Let merchants traverse seas and lands,
For silver mines and golden sands;
Whilst I beside some shadowy rill,
Just where its bubbling fountain swells,
Do sit and gather stones and shells,
And hear the tale the blackbird tells.

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