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  ...crown Of youth and beauty and the fair renown Of a great name, that ne'er hath tarnished been! From your soft eyes, so innocent and sweet, Four spirits, sweet and innocent as they, Gaze on the world below, the sky above; Hark! there is some one singing in the street; "Faith, Hope, and Love! these three," he seems to say; "These three; and greatest of the three is Love."

HOLIDAYS
The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.   When the full river of feeling overflows;-- The happy days unclouded to their close; The sudden joys that out of darkness start As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart Like swallows singing down each wind that blows! White as the gleam of a receding sail, White as a cloud that floats and fades in air, White as the whitest lily on a stream, These tender memories are;--a Fairy Tale Of some enchanted land we know not where, But lovely as a landscape in a...   Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Excerpt from The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · This quote is about anniversaries · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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