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I may not enter the garden,
Though I know the road thereto;
And morn by morn to the gateway
I see the children go.

— Francis Turner Palgrave

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More quotes by Francis Turner Palgrave

When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.

Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (1861)

Our hope is less to last through Art than deeper searching of the heart, than broader range of uttered truth.

Time's corrosive dewdrop eats
The giant warrior to a crust
Of earth in earth and rust in rust.

Let the children play
And sit like flowers upon thy grave
And crown with flowers,—that hardly have
A briefer blooming-tide than they.

Shakespeare's stage must hold the glass to every age.

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