The cypress stood up like a church
That night we felt our love would hold,
And saintly moonlight seemed to search
And wash the whole world clean as gold;
The olives crystallized the vales’
Broad slopes until the hills grew strong:
The fireflies and the nightingales
Throbbed each to either, flame and song.
The nightingales, the nightingales.
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Upon the angle of its shade
The cypress stood, self-balanced high;
Half up, half down, as double-made,
Along the ground, against the sky.
And we, too! from such soul-height went
Such leaps of blood, so blindly driven,
We scarce knew if our nature meant
Most passionate earth or intense heaven.
The nightingales, the nightingales.
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We paled with love, we shook with love,
We kissed so close we could not vow;
Till Giulio whispered, ‘Sweet, above
God’s Ever guarantees this Now.’
And through his words the nightingales
Drove straight and full their long clear call,
Like arrows through heroic mails,
And love was awful in it all.
The nightingales, the nightingales.
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O cold white moonlight of the north,
Refresh these pulses, quench this hell!
O coverture of death drawn forth
Across this garden-chamber… well!
But what have nightingales to do
In gloomy England, called the free.
(Yes, free to die in!…) when we two
Are sundered, singing still to me?
And still they sing, the nightingales.
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I think I hear him, how he cried
‘My own soul’s life’ between their notes.
Each man has but one soul supplied,
And that’s immortal. Though his throat’s
On fire with passion now, to her
He can’t say what to me he said!
And yet he moves her, they aver.
The nightingales sing through my head.
The nightingales, the nightingales.
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He says to her what moves her most.
He would not name his soul within
Her hearing,—rather pays her cost
With praises to her lips and chin.
Man has but one soul, ’tis ordained,
And each soul but one love, I add;
Yet souls are damned and love’s profaned.
These nightingales will sing me mad!
The nightingales, the nightingales.
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I marvel how the birds can sing.
There’s little difference, in their view,
Betwixt our Tuscan trees that spring
As vital flames into the blue,
And dull round blots of foliage meant
Like saturated sponges here
To suck the fogs up. As content
Is he too in this land, ’tis clear.
And still they sing, the nightingales.
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My native Florence! dear, forgone!
I see across the Alpine ridge
How the last feast-day of Saint John
Shot rockets from Carraia bridge.
The luminous city, tall with fire,
Trod deep down in that river of ours,
While many a boat with lamp and choir
Skimmed birdlike over glittering towers.
I will not hear these nightingales.
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I seem to float, we seem to float
Down Arno’s stream in festive guise;
A boat strikes flame into our boat,
And up that lady seems to rise
As then she rose. The shock had flashed
A vision on us! What a head,
What leaping eyeballs!—beauty dashed
To splendour by a sudden dread.
And still they sing, the nightingales.
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Too bold to sin, too weak to die;
Such women are so. As for me,
I would we had drowned there, he and I,
That moment, loving perfectly.
He had not caught her with her loosed
Gold ringlets… rarer in the south…
Nor heard the ‘Grazie tanto’ bruised
To sweetness by her English mouth.
And still they sing, the nightingales.
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She had not reached him at my heart
With her fine tongue, as snakes indeed
Kill flies; nor had I, for my part,
Yearned after, in my desperate need,
And followed him as he did her
To coasts left bitter by the tide,
Whose very nightingales, elsewhere
Delighting, torture and deride!
For still they sing, the nightingales.
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A worthless woman! mere cold clay
As all false things are! but so fair,
She takes the breath of men away
Who gaze upon her unaware.
I would not play her larcenous tricks
To have her looks! She lied and stole,
And spat into my love’s pure pyx
The rank saliva of her soul.
And still they sing, the nightingales.
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Love makes the world go round
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My God (oh, let me call Thee mine,
Weak, wretched sinner though I be),
My trembling soul would fain be Thine;
My feeble faith still clings to Thee.
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Not only for the Past I grieve,
The Future fills me with dismay;
Unless Thou hasten to relieve,
Thy suppliant is a castaway.
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I cannot say my faith is strong,
I dare not hope my love is great;
But strength and love to Thee belong;
Oh, do not leave me desolate!
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I know I owe my all to Thee;
Oh, TAKE the heart I cannot give!
Do Thou my strength–my Saviour be,
And MAKE me to Thy glory live.
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Love makes the world go round
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The moonlight fades from flower and rose
And the stars dim one by one;
The tale is told, the song is sung,
And the Fairy feast is done.
The night-wind rocks the sleeping flowers,
And sings to them, soft and low.
The early birds erelong will wake:
‘T is time for the Elves to go.
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O’er the sleeping earth we silently pass,
Unseen by mortal eye,
And send sweet dreams, as we lightly float
Through the quiet moonlit sky;-
For the stars’ soft eyes alone may see,
And the flowers alone may know,
The feasts we hold, the tales we tell;
So’t is time for the Elves to go.
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From bird, and blossom, and bee,
We learn the lessons they teach;
And seek, by kindly deeds, to win
A loving friend in each.
And though unseen on earth we dwell,
Sweet voices whisper low,
And gentle hearts most joyously greet
The Elves where’er they go.
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When next we meet in the Fairy dell,
May the silver moon’s soft light
Shine then on faces gay as now,
And Elfin hearts as light.
Now spread each wing, for the eastern sky
With sunlight soon shall glow.
The morning star shall light us home:
Farewell! for the Elves must go.
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Love makes the world go round
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Fair was the evening and brightly the sun
Was shining on desert and grove,
Sweet were the breezes and balmy the flowers
And cloudless the heavens above.
It was Arabia’s distant land
And peaceful was the hour;
Two youthful figures lay reclined
Deep in a shady bower.
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One was a boy of just fourteen
Bold beautiful and bright;
Soft raven curls hung clustering round
A brow of marble white.
The fair brow and ruddy cheek
Spoke of less burning skies;
Words cannot paint the look that beamed
In his dark lustrous eyes.
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The other was a slender girl,
Blooming and young and fair.
The snowy neck was shaded with
The long bright sunny hair.
And those deep eyes of watery blue,
So sweetly sad they seemed.
And every feature in her face
With pensive sorrow teemed.
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The youth beheld her saddened air
And smiling cheerfully
He said, ‘How pleasant is the land
Of sunny Araby!
‘Zenobia, I never saw
A lovelier eve than this;
I never felt my spirit raised
With more unbroken bliss!
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‘So deep the shades, so calm the hour,
So soft the breezes sigh,
So sweetly Philomel begins
Her heavenly melody.
‘So pleasant are the scents that rise
From flowers of loveliest hue,
And more than all – Zenobia,
I am alone with you!
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Are we not happy here alone
In such a healthy spot?’
He looked to her with joyful smile
But she returned it not.
‘Why are you sorrowful?’ he asked
And heaved a bitter sigh,
‘O tell me why those drops of woe
Are gathering in your eye.’
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‘Gladly would I rejoice,’ she said,
‘But grief weighs down my heart.
‘Can I be happy when I know
Tomorrow we must part?
‘Yes, Alexander, I must see
This happy land no more.
At break of day I must return
To distant Gondal’s shore.
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‘At morning we must bid farewell,
And at the close of day
You will be wandering alone
And I shall be away.
‘I shall be sorrowing for you
On the wide weltering sea,
And you will perhaps have wandered here
To sit and think of me.’
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‘And shall we part so soon?’ he cried,
‘Must we be torn away?
Shall I be left to mourn alone?
Will you no longer stay?
‘And shall we never meet again,
Hearts that have grown together?
Must they at once be rent away
And kept apart for ever?’
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‘Yes, Alexander, we must part,
But we may meet again,
For when I left my native land
I wept in anguish then.
‘Never shall I forget the day
I left its rocky shore.
We thought that we had bid adieu
To meet on earth no more.
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‘When we had parted how I wept
To see the mountains blue
Grow dimmer and more distant – till
They faded from my view.
‘And you too wept – we little thought
After so long a time,
To meet again so suddenly
In such a distant clime.
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‘We met on Grecia’s classic plain,
We part in Araby.
And let us hope to meet again
Beneath our Gondal’s sky.’
‘Zenobia, do you remember
A little lonely spring
Among Exina’s woody hills
Where blackbirds used to sing,
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‘And when they ceased as daylight faded
From the dusky sky
The pensive nightingale began
Her matchless melody?
‘Sweet bluebells used to flourish there
And tall trees waved on high,
And through their ever sounding leaves
The soft wind used to sigh.
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‘At morning we have often played
Beside that lonely well;
At evening we have lingered there
Till dewy twilight fell.
‘And when your fifteenth birthday comes,
Remember me, my love,
And think of what I said to you
In this sweet spicy grove.
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‘At evening wander to that spring
And sit and wait for me;
And ‘ere the sun has ceased to shine
I will return to thee.
‘Two years is a weary time
But it will soon be fled.
And if you do not meet me – know
I am not false but dead.’
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Sweetly the summer day declines
On forest, plain, and hill
And in that spacious palace hall
So lonely, wide and still.
Beside a window’s open arch,
In the calm evening air
All lonely sits a stately girl,
Graceful and young and fair.
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The snowy lid and lashes long
Conceal her downcast eye,
She’s reading and till now I have
Passed unnoticed by.
But see she cannot fix her thoughts,
They are wandering away;
She looks towards a distant dell
Where sunny waters play.
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And yet her spirit is not with
The scene she looks upon;
She muses with a mournful smile
On pleasures that are gone.
She looks upon the book again
That chained her thoughts before,
And for a moment strives in vain
To fix her mind once more.
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Then gently drops it on her knee
And looks into the sky,
While trembling drops are shining in
Her dark celestial eye.
And thus alone and still she sits
Musing on years gone by.
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Till with a sad and sudden smile
She rises up to go;
And from the open window springs
On to the grass below.
Why does she fly so swiftly now
Adown the meadow green,
And o’er the gently swelling hills
And the vale that lies between?
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She passes under giant trees
That lift their arms on high
And slowly wave their mighty boughs
In the clear evening sky,
And now she threads a path that winds
Through deeply shaded groves
Where nought is heard but sighing gales
And murmuring turtle doves.
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She hastens on through sunless gloom
To a vista opening wide;
A marble fountain sparkles there
With sweet flowers by its side.
At intervals in the velvet grass
A few old elm trees rise,
While a warm flood of yellow light
Streams from the western skies.
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Is this her resting place? Ah, no,
She hastens onward still,
The startled deer before her fly
As she ascends the hill.
She does not rest till she has gained
A lonely purling spring,
Where zephyrs wave the verdant trees
And birds in concert sing.
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And there she stands and gazes round
With bright and searching eye,
Then sadly sighing turns away
And looks upon the sky.
She sits down on the flowery turf
Her head drooped on her hand;
Her soft luxuriant golden curls
Are by the breezes fanned.
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A sweet sad smile plays on her lips;
Her heart is far away,
And thus she sits till twilight comes
To take the place of day.
But when she looks towards the west
And sees the sun is gone
And hears that every bird but one
To its nightly rest is flown,
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And sees that over nature’s face
A sombre veil is cast
With mournful voice and tearful eye
She says, ‘The time is past!
‘He will not come! I might have known
It was a foolish hope;
But it was so sweet to cherish
I could not yield it up.
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‘It may be foolish thus to weep
But I cannot check my tears
To see in one short hour destroyed
The darling hope of years.
‘He is not false, but he was young
And time rolls fast away.
Has he forgotten the vow he made
To meet me here today?
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‘No. If he lives he loves me still
And still remembers me.
If he is dead — my joys are sunk
In utter misery.
‘We parted in the spicy groves
Beneath Arabia’s sky.
How could I hope to meet him now
Where Gondal’s breezes sigh?
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‘He was a shining meteor light
That faded from the skies,
But I mistook him for a star
That only set to rise.
‘And with a firm yet trembling hand
I’ve clung to this false hope;
I dared not surely trust in it
Yet would not yield it up.
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‘And day and night I’ve thought of him
And loved him constantly,
And prayed that Heaven would prosper him
Wherever he might be.
‘He will not come; he’s wandering now
On some far distant shore,
Or else he sleeps the sleep of death
And cannot see me more!
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‘O, Alexander, is it thus?
Did we but meet to part?
Long as I live thy name will be
Engraven on my heart.
‘I shall not cease to think of thee
While life and thought remain,
For well I know that I can never
See thy like again!’
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She ceases now and dries her tears
But still she lingers there
In silent thought till night is come
And silver stars appear.
But lo! a tall and stately youth
Ascends the grassy slope;
His bright dark eyes are glancing round,
His heart beats high with hope.
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He has journyed on unweariedly
From dawn of day till now,
The warm blood kindles in his cheek,
The sweat is on his brow.
But he has gained the green hill top
Where lies that lonely spring,
And lo! he pauses when he hears
Its gentle murmuring.
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He dares not enter through the trees
That veil it from his eye;
He listens for some other sound
In deep anxiety.
But vainly – all is calm and still;
Are his bright day dreams o’er?
Has he thus hoped and longed in vain,
And must they meet no more?
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One moment more of sad suspense
And those dark trees are past;
The lonely well bursts on his sight
And they are met at last!

YES, thou art gone! and never more
Thy sunny smile shall gladden me;
But I may pass the old church door,
And pace the floor that covers thee.
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May stand upon the cold, damp stone,
And think that, frozen, lies below
The lightest heart that I have known,
The kindest I shall ever know.
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Yet, though I cannot see thee more,
‘Tis still a comfort to have seen;
And though thy transient life is o’er,
‘Tis sweet to think that thou hast been;
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To think a soul so near divine,
Within a form so angel fair,
United to a heart like thine,
Has gladdened once our humble sphere.
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Love makes the world go round

What was he doing, the great god Pan,
Down in the reeds by the river?
Spreading ruin and scattering ban,
Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,
And breaking the golden lilies afloat
With the dragon-fly on the river.
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He tore out a reed, the great god Pan,
From the deep cool bed of the river:
The limpid water turbidly ran,
And the broken lilies a-dying lay,
And the dragon-fly had fled away,
Ere he brought it out of the river.
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High on the shore sat the great god Pan,
While turbidly flowed the river;
And hacked and hewed as a great god can,
With his hard bleak steel at the patient reed,
Till there was not a sign of the leaf indeed
To prove it fresh from the river.
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He cut it short, did the great god Pan,
(How tall it stood in the river!)
Then drew the pith, like the heart of a man,
Steadily from the outside ring,
And notched the poor dry empty thing
In holes, as he sat by the river.
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“This is the way,” laughed the great god Pan,
(Laughed while he sat by the river)
“The only way, since gods began
To make sweet music, they could succeed.”
Then, dropping his mouth to a hole in the reed,
He blew in power by the river.
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Sweet, sweet, sweet, O Pan!
Piercing sweet by the river!
Blinding sweet, O great god Pan!
The sun on the hill forgot to die,
And the lilies revived, and the dragon-fly
Came back to dream on the river.
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Yet half a beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh as he sits by the river,
Making a poet out of a man:
The true gods sigh for the cost and pain—
For the reed which grows nevermore again
As a reed with the reeds in the river.
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‘Maiden, thou wert thoughtless once
Of beauty or of grace,
Simple and homely in attire
Careless of form and face.
Then whence this change, and why so oft
Dost smooth thy hazel hair?
And wherefore deck thy youthful form
With such unwearied care?
‘Tell us and cease to tire our ears
With yonder hackneyed strain,
Why wilt thou play those simple tunes
So often o’er again?’
‘Nay, gentle friends, I can but say
That childhood’s thoughts are gone.
Each year its own new feelings brings
And years move swiftly on,

And for these little simple airs,
I love to play them o’er -
So much I dare not promise now
To play them never more.’
I answered and it was enough;
They turned them to depart;
They could not read my secret thoughts
Nor see my throbbing heart.

I’ve noticed many a youthful form
Upon whose changeful face
The inmost workings of the soul
The gazer’s eye might trace.
The speaking eye, the changing lip,
The ready blushing cheek,
The smiling or beclouded brow
Their different feelings speak.

But, thank God! you might gaze on mine
For hours and never know
The secret changes of my soul
From joy to bitter woe.
Last night, as we sat round the fire
Conversing merrily,
We heard without approaching steps
Of one well known to me.

There was no trembling in my voice,
No blush upon my cheek,
No lustrous sparkle in my eyes,
Of hope or joy to speak;
But O my spirit burned within,
My heart beat thick and fast.
He came not nigh, he went away
And then my joy was past.

And yet my comrades marked it not,
My voice was still the same;
They saw me smile, and o’er my face
No signs of sadness came;
They little knew my hidden thoughts
And they will never know
The anguish of my drooping heart,
The bitter aching woe!
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bought to you by love makes the world go round
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Shared joy is double joy, shared sorrow is halve sorrow.
Swedish proverb
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Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Ghandi
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We wove a web in childhood, a web of sunny air.
Charlotte Bronte
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Hold tenderly that hich you cherish.
Bob Albert
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Some people move our souls to dance
Anon
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Life delights in life.
William Blake
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Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world
through the eyes of a child.
Ron Wild
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Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Richard Wagner
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For memory has painted the perfect day,
with colours that never fade away…
Carrie Jacobs Bond
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Grow old along with me, the best is yet tobe.
Robert Browning
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others,
and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith
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The best and the most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt
with the heart.
Helen Adams Keller
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A daughter holds a special place
Deep within a pernent’s heart.
It’s a love that just appears
And it’s there right from the start.
Each day it grows stronger
With the laughter and the tears.
It’s a bond that can’t be broken
Although it’s tested through the years.
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A daughter’s love is special
It’s not like any other.
That’s why we are very proud
To be your Father and your Mother.