Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.
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Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup.
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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange -- my youth.
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I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
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I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
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Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
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No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed.
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Can I ever know you Or you know me?
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No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.
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A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
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I make the most of all that comes,
And the least of all that goes.
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I make the most of all that comes, And the least of all that goes.
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Can I ever know you Or you know me
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