My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, And yet recalls the very hour 'Twas noon by yonder village tower, And on the last blue noon in May The wind came briskly up this way, Crisping the brook beside the road; Then. -Thomas Bailey Aldrich

 

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, And yet recalls the very hour 'Twas noon by yonder village tower, And on the last blue noon in May The wind came briskly up this way, Crisping the brook beside the road; Then.


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What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness.

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

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The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

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A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

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