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When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow
For other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow
For other's good, and melt at other's woe.
In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
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In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee.
Never elated while one man's oppress'd;
Never dejected while another's blessed.
Never elated while one man's oppress'd;
Never dejected while another's blessed.
We pine for kindred natures
To mingle with our own.
We pine for kindred natures
To mingle with our own.
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
Our souls sit close and silently within,
And their own web from their own entrails spin;
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Our souls sit close and silently within,
And their own web from their own entrails spin;
And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such,
That, spider like, we feel the tenderest touch.
It [true love] is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
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It [true love] is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind.
A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side.
A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side.