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The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover...more

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I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects...more

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Why did they go away, do you think? If there ever were such things.""Who knows? Times change. Would you call this age a good one for unicorns?""No, bu...more

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Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves-f...more

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Unicorns know naught of shame, or need, or doubt, or debt;But mortals, as you may have noticed, take what they can get.

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And at last she woke up in the middle of one warm night and said, "Yes, but now.

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From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leaving her forest, she could not stand in one place wit...more

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I am no king, and I am no lord,And I am no soldier at-arms," said he."I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper,That am come hither to wed with ye...more