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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.


Mrs. Jamieson

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DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight, And...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born t...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our eart...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) To-morrow is, ah, whose?
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail! Pierce with thy trill the dark, Like a glitt...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark! Thy note is more loud and free Because there...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the tim...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave the...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me! Its merry architects so small Had scarcely ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I said to the brown, brown thrush: "Hush, hush! Through the wood's full strains I hear T...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)