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LOVE AND SORROW by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY

First Line: LOVE IN THE COUNTRY, SORROW IN THE TOWN
Last Line: THE BRIGHTEST SUNSHINE CASTS THE DARKEST SHADE.
Subject(s): GRIEF; LOVE; SORROW; SADNESS;
LOVE in the country, Sorrow in the town:
Let Love have roots, but Sorrow only wings;
Where life moves slow each feeling deepens down:
A crowded life the quickest solace brings.

But Love from Sorrow never more will part,
She would not heal the wounds her sister made;
She makes more keen each feeling of the heart;
The brightest sunshine casts the darkest shade.



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