Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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To the Lady Fleming.

But hushed be every thought that springs

From out the bitterness of things.

Elegiac Stanzas. Addressed to Sir G. H. B.

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To the solid ground

Of Nature trusts the mind that builds for aye.

A Volant Tribe of Bards on Earth.

Soft is the music that would charm forever;

The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.