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The beast faith lives on its own dung.
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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London
England
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But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.
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Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?
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My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.
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Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
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If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.
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In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.
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Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
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I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap: I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.
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His speech is a burning fire.
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Despair the twin-born of devotion.
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Time stoops to no man's lure.
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
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I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.
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There is no God found stronger than death and death is a sleep.
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When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.
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Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.
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