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" Th' imperfect picture o'er again, With power to add, retouch, efface The lights and shades, the joy and pain, How little of the past would stay ! How quickly all should melt away — All — but that freedom of the mind Which hath been more than wealth... "
The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore Including His Melodies, Ballads, Etc ... - Page 382
by Thomas Moore - 1829 - 408 pages
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A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue

Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomas William Rolleston - English poetry - 1910 - 636 pages
...the joy and p ;!n, How little of the past would stay ! How quickly all should melt away— All—but that freedom of the mind Which hath been more than...home, that saving ark Where Love's true light at last I've found, Cheering within when all grows dark And comfortless and stormy round. CHARLES WOLFE THE...
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Poetry

Thomas Moore - 1903 - 302 pages
...add, retouch, efface How little of the past would stay ! How quickly all should melt away— All—but that Freedom of the Mind, Which hath been more than...kept till now unchangingly ; And that dear home, that saving-ark, Where Love's true light at last I've found, Cheering within, when all grows dark, And comfortless,...
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Recollections and Impressions

Eleanor Mary Sellar - Authors - 1907 - 416 pages
...have said with Tom Moore that what he prized most in life was " that freedom of the mind Which has been more than wealth to me, Those friendships in...my boyhood twined, And kept till now unchangingly." When, some time afterwards, he was staying at Rugby with Mr Walrond, his old friend Mr Shairp told...
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The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...o'er again, With power to add, retouch, efface The lights and shades, the joy and pain, How little of the past would stay ! How quickly all should melt...home, that saving ark Where Love's true light at last I've found, Cheering within, when all grows dark And comfortless and stormy round. T. Moore 621. On...
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The Dublin Book of Irish Verse 1728-1909

John Cooke - English poetry - 1909 - 818 pages
...o'er again, With power to add, retouch, efface The lights and shades, the joy and pain, How little of the past would stay ! How quickly all should melt...kept till now unchangingly ; And that dear home, that saving-ark, Where Love's true light at last I've found, Cheering within, when all grows dark, And comfortless,...
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Sir Walter Scott's Friends

Florence Anne MacCunn - Authors, Scottish - 1909 - 488 pages
...of the past would stay, How quickly all would melt away ! — All but that Freedom of the mind That hath been more than wealth to me. Those friendships...that saving ark, Where Love's true light at last I found, Cheering within when all grows dark And comfortless and stormy round." If Moore recognised a...
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Sir Walter Scott's Friends

Florence Anne Sellar MacCunn - Scotland - 1910 - 510 pages
...of the past would stay, How quickly all would melt away ! — AH but that Freedom of the mind That hath been more than wealth to me. Those friendships...home, that saving ark, Where Love's true light at last 1 found, Cheering within when all grows dark And comfortless and stormy round." If Moore recognised...
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912, Volume 1, Pages 1-456

American poetry - 1915 - 488 pages
...o 'er again, With power to add, retouch, efface The lights and shades, the joy and pain, How little of the past would stay! How quickly all should melt...kept till now unchangingly; And that dear home, that saving-ark, Where Love 's true light at last I 've found, Cheering within, when all grows dark, And...
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The Expositor's Dictionary of Poetical Quotations

James Moffatt - Bible - 1913 - 252 pages
...o'er again, With power to add, retouch, efface The lights and shades, the joy and pain, How little of the past would stay ! How quickly all should melt...my boyhood twined, And kept till now unchangingly." — MOORE. " Let thy soul strive that still the same Be early friendship's sacred flame. The affinities...
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 1

American poetry - 1918 - 2030 pages
...o'er again, With power to add, retouch, efface The lights and shades, the joy and pain, How little of the past would stay! How quickly all should melt...kept till now unchangingly; And that dear home, that saving-ark, Where Love's true light at last I've found, Cheering within, when all grows dark, And comfortless,...
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