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Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Age: 72 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 5
Died: 1909
Died: April 10
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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.
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Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.
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