"Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast."
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"O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies."
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"Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green."
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"When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still."
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"God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery."
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"The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire."
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