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

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Paradise and the Peri.

Take all the pleasures of all the spheres,

And multiply each through endless years,—

One minute of heaven is worth them all.

Paradise and the Peri.

But the trail of the serpent is over them all.

Paradise and the Peri.

Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour,

I 've seen my fondest hopes decay;

I never loved a tree or flower