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I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared.

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Richard Watson Gilder

In the embers shining bright A garden grows for thy delight, With roses yellow, red, and white. But, O my child, beware, beware! Touch not the roses growing there, For every rose a thorn doth bear.

Children, Doth, Garden, Rose, Yellow
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Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

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We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?

Faith, Flower, Lean, Like, Look, Wise

Give me a theme," the little poet cried, "And I will do my part," "'Tis not a theme you need," the world replied; "You need a heart.

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What if thou be saint or sinner, Crooked gray-beard, straight beginner,-- Empty paunch, or jolly dinner, When Death thee shall call. All like are rich or richer, King with crown, and cross-legged stitcher, When the grave hides all.

Death, Dinner, Kings, Saint, Sinner, What If

Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay, And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill, While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will, "Polly!-Polly!- The cows are in the corn! Oh, where's Polly?"

Down, Father, Mill, Mother, Robins, Summer
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