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Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name.

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To have known love, how bitter a thing it is.

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If you were April's lady,
And I were lord in May.

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O splendid and sterile Dolores,
Our Lady of Pain.

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We are not sure of sorrow,
And joy was never sure.

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Poor splendid wings so frayed and soiled and torn!

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Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

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I am the queen Aholibah
My lips kissed dumb the word of Ah.

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Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things.

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While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.

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His life is a watch or a vision
Between a sleep and a sleep.

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As a god self-slain on his own strange altar,
Death lies dead.

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Even love, the beloved Republic, that feeds upon freedom lives.

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A blatant Bassarid of Boston, a rampant Maenad of Massachusetts.

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For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

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A crown and justice? Night and day
Shall first be yoked together.

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For words divide and rend;
But silence is most noble till the end.

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Ah that such sweet things should be fleet,
Such fleet things sweet!

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Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.

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No thorns go as deep as a rose's,
And love is more cruel than lust.

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For there is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.

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I shall never be friends again with roses;
I shall loathe sweet tunes.

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I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end.

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We shift and bedeck and bedrape us,
Thou art noble and nude and antique.

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Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.

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The delight that consumes the desire,
The desire that outruns the delight.

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I will go back to the great sweet mother,
Mother and lover of men, the sea.

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For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit there of dust.

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The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.

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