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SORROWS AND PLEASURES by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

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First Line: IT IS AN AWFUL THING HOW WE FORGET
Last Line: THAT DRAW ALL LIFE TOGETHER.
Subject(s): GRIEF; SORROW; SADNESS;
IT is an awful thing how we forget
The sacred ties that bind us each to each.
Our pleasures might admonish us, and say,
Tremble at that delight which is unshared:
Its selfishness must be its punishment.
All have their sorrows, and how strange it seems
They do not soften more the general heart:
Sorrows should be those universal links
That draw all life together.



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