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October 20, 2016

At Midnight by Sara Teasdale

Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so splendid Are never โ€ฆ
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Past and Future by Elizabeth Browning

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Change Upon Change by Elizabeth Browning

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On a Foreign War Shipโ€™s Salute to the Queenโ€™s Standard at Osborne by John Campbell

    With their deep voice, monotonous and slow,     The cannon's thunders roll along the sea;     Buโ€ฆ
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Norse Lullaby by Eugene Field

    The sky is dark and the hills are white     As the storm-king speeds from the north to-night,    &nbsโ€ฆ
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Fortune and the Boy by Jean de La Fontaine

     Beside a well, uncurb'd and deep,      A schoolboy laid him down to sleep:      (Suchโ€ฆ
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Brown Penny by William Butler Yeats

I Whispered, "I am too young," And then, "I am old enough"; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. "Go and love, go and love, young maโ€ฆ
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A Sketch by William Wordsworth

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