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If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

William Allingham

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William Allingham
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: March 19
Died: 1889
Died: November 18
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Hope
Every
Womankind
Men
Foes
Foe
Pardon
Mines
Mine

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Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!
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Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this Than any other thing!
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Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the elm-tree for our king!
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Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.
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The mother's kiss is the sweetest thing ever.
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Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness We feel the good time is well-nigh past.
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She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.
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Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!
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Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.
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Yet dearer still that Irish hill than all the world beside It's home, sweet home, where'er I roam, through lands and waterswide.
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Scarcely a tear to shed Hardly a word to say The end of a Summer's day Sweet Love is dead.
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One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three.
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Pluck not the wayside flower It is the traveler's dower.
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Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.
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Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.
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I believe in Success, And in Comfort no less I believe all the rest is but patter.
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Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring Lies open, writ in blossoms.
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Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.
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Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to hear.
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Sin we have explain'd away Unluckily, the sinners stay.
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