He halted in the wind, and -- what was that Far in the maples, pale, but not a ghost? He stood there bringing March against his thought, And yet too ready to believe the most. "Oh, that's the Paradise-in-bloom," I said; And truly it was fair enough for flowers had we but in us to assume in march Such white luxuriance of May for ours. We stood a moment so in a strange world, Myself as one his own pretense deceives; And then I said the truth (and we moved ...

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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. - Eleanor Roosevelt A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself. - Jim Morrison My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. - Henry Ford The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. -  Abraham Lincoln She's always there for me when I ...

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I saw my world again through your eyes As I would see it again through your children's eyes. Through your eyes it was foreign. Plain hedge hawthorns were peculiar aliens, A mystery of peculiar lore and doings. Anything wild, on legs, in your eyes Emerged at a point of exclamation As if it had appeared to dinner guests In the middle of the table. Common mallards Were artefacts of some unearthliness, Their wooings were a hypnagogic film Unreeled by the river. Impossible To comprehend the comfort of their feet In the freezing water. ...

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