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On My Wedding-Day

by Lord Byron

Lord Byron

Here's a happy new year! but with reason
I beg you'll permit me to say
Wish me many returns of the season,
But as few as you please of the dy.
January 2, 1820.




Quotes of the Day

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
• Theodore Dreiser


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