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Alas! how easily things go wrong!
A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long,
And then read more
Alas! how easily things go wrong!
A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long,
And then comes a mist and a weeping rain,
And life is never the same again.
Once I guessed right,
And I got credit by't;
Thrice I guessed wrong,
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Once I guessed right,
And I got credit by't;
Thrice I guessed wrong,
And I kept my credit on.
Higher than the perfect song
For which love longeth,
Is the tender fear of wrong,
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Higher than the perfect song
For which love longeth,
Is the tender fear of wrong,
That never wrongeth.
A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his
career, only to deduce the astonishing read more
A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his
career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at
last entirely right.
Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.
Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.
In the great right of an excessive wrong.
In the great right of an excessive wrong.
Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.