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WEATHER-BREEDER by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

First Line: AH, NOT TO KNOW THAT SUCH A HAPPINESS
Last Line: ALONE COULD MOTHER MISERY LIKE THIS!
Subject(s): PAIN; SUFFERING; MISERY;
Ah, not to know that such a happiness
To be wished greater were to be made less;
That one drop more must make it spill in tears
Of agony that blisters and that sears;
That the supreme perfection of thy bliss
Alone could mother misery like this!



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