Author: Henry David Thoreau (---.spacegate.com.ua)
Date: 01-13-06 07:30
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XXI
So is it not with me as with that Muse,
Stirr\'d by a painted beauty to his verse,
Who heaven itself for ornament doth use
And every fair with his fair doth rehearse,
Making a couplement of proud compare\'
With sun and moon, with earth and sea\'s rich gems,
With April\'s first-born flowers, and all things rare,
That heaven\'s air in this huge rondure hems.
O! let me, true in love, but truly write,
And then believe me, my love is as fair
As any mother\'s child, though not so bright
As those gold candles fix\'d in heaven\'s air:
Let them say more that like of hearsay well;
I will not praise that purpose not to sell.
--William Shakespeare</pre>
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Ronald Reagan
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T. S. Eliot<P><P>Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution
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