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But when dread Sloth, the Mother of Doom, steals in,
And reigns where Labour's glory was to serve,
Then is the day of crumbling not far off.

— William Watson

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Sea that breakest for ever, that breakest and never art broken.

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Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

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Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.

The stars of heaven are free because
In amplitude of liberty
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