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When Love arose in heart and deed
To wake the world to greater joy,
'What can she give me now?' said Greed,
Who thought to win some costly toy.


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Great wide, beautiful, wonderful world,
With the wonderful water round you curled,
And the wonderful grass upon your breast,
World, you are beautifully dressed.


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Never do today what you can
Put off till tomorrow.


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You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot:
You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!


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You are so great, and I am so small,
I hardly can think of you, World, at all


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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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William Brighty Rands

William Brighty Rands

Born: December 24, 1823
Died: April 23, 1882 (aged 58)
Bio: William Brighty Rands was a British writer and one of the major authors of nursery rhymes of the Victorian era.

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