Robert Southey Quotes on Happiness
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At this good news, so great The Devil's pleasure grew, That, with a joyful swish, he rent The hole where his tail came through.
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Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?
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Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.