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The first a crucifix was made, Within a soldier's knapsack laid; The second was a locket fair, Where a mother kept her dead child's hair; The third a bangle, bright and warm, Around a faithless woman's arm. A mighty pain to love it is, And'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pain the greatest pain, It is to love, but love in vain. Maurice F. Egan on De Guerin.
Creech owes me per note in your hand, and I want it much at present, as I am engaging in business pretty deeply both for myself and my brother. A hundred guineas can be but a trifling affair to him, and'tis a matter of most serious importance to me. To-morrow I begin my operations as a farmer, and so God speed the plough!
"The heart knoweth its own sorrows, and a stranger intermeddleth not therewith." The repository of these "sorrows of the heart" is a kind of sanctum sanctorum: and'tis only a chosen friend, and that, too, at particular, sacred times, who dares enter into them: Heaven oft tears the bosom-chords That nature finest strung. You will excuse this quotation for the sake of the author.
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