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As a white stone in the well's cool deepness,
There lays in me one wonderful remembrance
I am not able and don't want to miss this:
It is my torture and my utter gladness

Cows suffered in the days of
For want of water and from cold,
Now of good water they have
For it is pumped by the windmill

Now she heard the following words sadly sung,— “Life is a shadow that flits
In a night of darkness and woe
” But then would follow brighter thoughts: “Life has the rose’s sweet
With sunshine, light, and joy

He sees through stonehe has the secreteyes this old black onewho under prison skiessits pressed by the sunagainst the western wallhis pipe between purple gumsthe years falllike overripe plumsbursting red fleshon the dark earthhis time is not my ti...

If a nasty jagged stone gets into your shoe, thank the Lord it came alone- what if it were two

I have a feeling for those ships,
Each worn and ancient one,
With great bluff bows, and broad in the beam:
Ay, it was unkindly done

I shall die in Paris, in a rainstorm,
On a day I already remember
I shall die in Paris— it does not bother me—Doubtless on a Thursday, like today, in autumn
It shall be a Thursday, because today,

There's sunshine in the heart of me,
My blood sings in the breeze;
The mountains are a part of me,
I'm fellow to the trees