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Epigram on Miss Davies

Robert Burns

Ask why God made the gem so small?
And why so huge the granite?—
Because God meant mankind should set
That higher value on it.




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A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
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    No. 6
    by Charles Bukowski
    I'll settle for the 6 horse on a rainy afternoon a paper cup of coffee in my hand a little way to go, the wind twirling out small wrens from the upper grandstand roof, the jocks coming out