Thompson Russell Smith

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    “She went her unremembering way,
    She went and left in me
    The pang of all the partings gone,
    And partings yet to be.”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

    ““There is Lowell, who’s striving Parnassus to climb
    With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme,
    He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders,
    But he can’t with that bundle he has on his shoulders,
    The top of the hill he will ne’er come nigh reaching
    Till he learns the distinction ‘twixt singing and preaching;”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    “The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.”
    —Lillian Smith (1897–1966)