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Earth's Loveliness



Don't strew me with roses 
after I'm dead.
When Death claims
 the light of my brow,
No flowers of life
 will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!

Thomas F. Healey 


My soul can find no staircase 
to Heaven unless it be through
 Earth's loveliness.
Michelangelo Buonardo    



The beauty of the world 
has two edges,
 one of laughter, one of anguish,
 cutting the heart asunder.
 Virginia Woolf





 

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