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The song-birds leave us at the summer's close, Only the empty nests are left behind, And pipings of the quail among the sheaves.

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.

The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane, Immovable for three days past, Points to the misty main.

Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books.

It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Resolve, and thou art free.

Resolve and thou art free.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine!

Beneath me flows the Rhine, and, like the stream of Time, it flows amid the ruins of the Past.

Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to the towns They visit, wandering silently among them, Like patriarchs old among their shining tents.

He loved the twilight that surrounds The border-land of old romance; Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance, And banner waves, and trumpet sounds, And ladies ride with hawk on wrist, And mighty warriors sweep along, Magnified by the purple mist, The dusk of centuries and of song.

Romance is the poetry of literature.

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings.

Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!