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Little child Who was me once, My pity on you - And reverence. If we could meet Where I once strayed, The betrayer And the betrayed. If we could win back In Time's defiance, Would you be afeared of me, Ten-year-old Terence? No, you would not fear. You would love, trust, Cherish, admire This tedious dust. For oh! we were all brimming once With the sun-sparkled dew. One heart could have loved this hulk - The ignorant heart of you.

"To My Self, Forty Years Ago".

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God is love, the bishops tell. Yes, I know, But love is hell.

"All For Love".

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Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically - to those who hardly think about us in return.

The Queen of Air and Darkness - 1939 - Originally titled The Witch in the Wood.

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Ther days may come, Ther days may go, But still the light of Mem'ry weaves Those gentle dreams Of long ago

The Queen of Air and Darkness - 1939 - Originally titled The Witch in the Wood.

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"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn."

The Book of Merlyn - 1977 - A posthumous publication based upon White's notes of ideas for completing The Once and Future King.

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Be kind, Helen, I am so tired of thinking; There are so many difficult corridors of thought, With equal iron banisters leading back again: So many stone stairs, Helen, up which I sought To rediscover the windy sky, and stand, blinking, In the lost sunlight: as bright as pain, Helen. I would give almost anything now Even for pain.

"Lost".

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The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.

The Godstone and the Blackymor - 1959.

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"Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead."

The Queen of Air and Darkness - 1939 - Originally titled The Witch in the Wood.

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Helen whose face was fatal must have wept Many salt tears to keep her eyes so bright Many long nights alone: and every night Men died, she cried, and happy Paris kept,

"PARIS".

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"Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?"

The Queen of Air and Darkness - 1939 - Originally titled The Witch in the Wood.

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