"Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,But never...

Tell me not in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~












Tell me not in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And th...
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