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Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,
Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,
Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,
Love is like a lovely rose, the world’s delight.
Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,
But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.

— Christina Rossetti

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Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

All earth’s full rivers can not fill
The sea that drinking thirsteth still.

Cheek to cheek and breast to breast
Lock’d together in one nest.

Like two wands of ivory
Tipp’d with gold for awful kings.

Goblin Market (1862)

One day in the country
Is worth a month in town.

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