- Robert Burns

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O MY Luve’s like a red, red rose,

That’s newly sprung in June:

O my Luve’s like the melodie,

That’s sweetly play’d in tune.

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An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment.

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Perplexed Music

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning·1806–1861·Lyric·Victorian

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XPERIENCE, like a pale musician, holds

A dulcimer of patience in his hand,

Whence harmonies, we cannot understand,

Of God; will in his worlds, the strain unfolds

In sad-perplexed minors: deathly colds

Fall on us while we hear, and countermand

Our sanguine heart back from the fancyland

With nightingales in visionary wolds.

We murmur ' Where is any certain tune

Or measured music in such notes as these ? '

But angels, leaning from the golden seat,

Are not so minded their fine ear hath won

The issue of completed cadences,

And, smiling down the stars, they whisper--

SWEET.

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