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But, oh! fell death's untimely frost That nipt my flower sae early.
-- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- Highland Mary...
But oh for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Break, break, break...
But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Lycidas, Line 37...
But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do.
How little they know of what they create by their demands....
But, oh ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly,--have they not henpeck'd you all?
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 22...
But on and up, where Nature's heart Beats strong amid the hills.
-- Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) (1809-1885) -- Tragedy of the Lac de Gaube, Stanza 2...
But one thing is needful; and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her.
-- New Testament -- Luke x, 42...
But only the wind picked him up, and blew him away into the Arizona skies.
And, I hope, to a better place. "Rio, maybe." "MR....
But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.
-- John Trumbull (1750-1831) -- McFingal, Canto i, Line 67...
But, O Sarah ! If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you
in the gladdest days and the darkest nights...always, always, and if there b...

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