1.18.2011

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    Content thee, greedy heart.
Modest and moderate joys to those, that have
Title to more hereafter when they part,
            Are passing brave.
    Let th' upper springs into the low
    Descend and fall, and thou dost flow.

    What though some have a fraught
Of cloves and nutmegs, and in cinnamon sail;
If thou hast wherewithal to spice a draught,
            When griefs prevail;
    And for the future time art heir
    To th' Isle of spices, is't not fair?


(George Herbert)

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