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A Gate Opens Before Me
A gate opens before me.
The weeping willow stands in its corner, gazing down upon the garden.
Its beauty coaxes me into forgetting the sorrow of the descending evening.
Eran Kolran
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Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Sara Teasdale
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A Psalm of Life
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Storyteller
“Once upon a time,” he starts without fail,
at the crowd’s behest he would try,
to elicit a tear or a smile, a tale to tell,
Eran Kolran
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