But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.
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This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers be tumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly: And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at ‘The Travellers’ Rest’, And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I.
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An aged thrush, frail, gaunt and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his sail Upon the growing gloom. So little cause for carollings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware.
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Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.
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Birth: | 2nd June, 1840 |
Death: | 11th January, 1928 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Novelist, Poet, Writer |
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