No Truer Word
No truer word, save God’s, was ever spoken,
Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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On Every Human Thing
On love, on grief, on every human thing,
Time sprinkles Lethe’s water with his wing.
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*Lethe’s water – “afterworld river of forgetfulness”
The Bard on the Hill 
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