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A crazy bookcase, placed before
A low-price dealer’s open door;
Therein arrayed in broken rows
A ragged crew of rhyme and prose,
The homeless vagrants, waifs, and strays
Whose low estate this line betrays
(Set forth the lesser birds to lime)
YOUR CHOICE AMONG THESE BOOKS 1 DIME!Ho! dealer; for its motto’s sake
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The play was done;
The mimic lovers of the stage
Were safe united, with their mimic battles won;
But while the prompter closed his well-scored page,
And on his bell a willing finger laid,
An old man, stately, kind, and hale,
In mould of courtly fashion made,
Set forth the moral of the tale.Much bent with time,...
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At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time,
When you set your fancies free,
Will they pass to where—by death, fools think, imprisoned—
Low he lies who once so loved you, whom you loved so,
—Pity me?Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken!
What had I on earth to do
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Oh ! les heures du soir sous ces climats légers,
La lumière en est belle et la lune y est douce,
Et l'ombre souple et claire y répand sur les mousses
Les mobiles dessins d'un feuillage étranger.
Oliviers d'Aragon, figuiers de Catalogne,
Hameaux calmes et blancs sur vos ruisseaux penchés,
Derniers rayons frôlant les toits et les clochers
Où s'arrêtait...