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They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train.

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

Thought is the measure of life.

Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

Time fleeth on,
Youth soon is gone,
Naught earthly may abide;
Life seemeth fast,
But may not last
It runs as runs the time.

Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain;
But all through Love in time is healed again.

Life will be lengthened while growing, for
Thought is the measure of life.

If all the world must see the world
As the world the world hath seen,
Then it were better for the world
That the world have never been.

When in God thou believest, near God thou wilt certainly be.