Quote #25

Oh! ever thus from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nurst a dear gazelle To glad me with its soft black eye But when it came to know me well And love me it was sure to die!

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  1. Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
  2. Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips.
  3. There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long; In the time of my childhood 'twas like…
  4. Paradise itself were dim And joyless, if not shared with him!
  5. My only books Were woman's looks, And folly's all they've taught me.
  6. The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.
  7. No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
  8. You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

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