Quote #15
Silence more musical than any song.
More from Christina Rossetti
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- All earth's full rivers can not fill The sea that drinking thirsteth still.
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- Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.
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