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• But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Paradise and the Peri...
• One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Paradise and the Peri...
• Who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- On the Death of Sherida...
• No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Come o'er the Sea...
• I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was brigh
  And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled....
• I saw Eternity the other night, / Like a great ring of pure and endless light, / All calm, as it was brigh
  / And round beneath it, / Time in hours, days, years, / Driv'n by the spheres / Like a vast shadow mov'd...
• Love on through all ills, and love on till they die.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- The Light of the Harem...
• This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion give
  The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,-- There 's nothing true but Heaven....
• After all there is but one race - humanity. -- George Moore