And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.


Oh think not my Spirits are always as light. - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)


And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.