"Mountain gorses, do ye teach us. ...." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mountain gorses, do ye teach us. . . .That the wisest word man reachesIs the humblest he can speak?
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“But love me for love's sake, that evermoreThou may'st love on, through love's eternity.”
“A great acacia, with its slender trunkAnd overpoise of multitudinous leaves.(In which a hundred fields might spill their dewAnd intense verdure, yet find room enough)Stood reconciling all the place with green.”
“The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.”