"And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent."
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"Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. Say she be mute and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, and say she uttereth piercing eloquence."
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"The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten."
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"We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we open, we reach, we grow."
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"The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn."
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"The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near."
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"The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky."
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"The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning."
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"[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning."
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"A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew."
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"Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
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"Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower."
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"Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf."
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"The world globes itself in a drop of dew."
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"The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star."
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"Perhaps this was how the sparrows did it too; perhaps they were looking so hard at the peaks and tips of the new rooftops coated with dew, and the vast new horizon, that they only forgot that they did not know how to fly until they were already in midair."
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"The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain--as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace."
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"It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do."
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"But the impressions which the morning makes vanish with its dews, and not even the most "persevering mortal" can preserve the memory of its freshness to midday."
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"What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?"
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