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And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.

All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the dark was over all; The trees began to whisper, and the wind began to roll, And in the wild March-morning I heard them call my soul.

For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.

The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.

Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.

And o'er the hills and far away, Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she followed him.

Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Darker than darkest pansies.

Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

A savior of the silver-coasted isle.

And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel.

Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!

In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.

Broad-based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea.

Red ruin and the breaking-up of all.

The sabbaths of Eternity. One sabbath deep and wide.