Quote #9

'T is expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.

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  1. Her lips were red, and one was thin; Compared with that was next her chin,- Some bee had stung it newly.
  2. She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.
  3. Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light; But oh, she dances such a way! No sun upon a…
  4. Her face is like the milky way i' the sky,-
  5. Oh for some honest lover's ghost, Some kind unbodied post Sent from the shades below! I strangely long to know Whether the nobler chaplets …
  6. But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own,
  7. 'Tis now since I sat down before That foolish fort, a heart, (Time strangely spent) a year, and more, And still I did my part:
  8. The prince of darkness is a gentleman.

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