Walter de La Mare Quotes About Lying
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The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair Mews at his knee for dainty fare; Old Rover in his moss-greened house Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse. In the dewy fields the cattle lie Chewing the cud 'neath a fading sky; Dobbin at manger pulls his hay: Gone is another summer's day.
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After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.
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When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.
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We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.
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