Catherine Maria Fanshawe Quotes

• Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.

  Catherine Maria Fanshawe

  Ocean, Flower, Echoes

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• It were a blessed sight to see That child become a willow tree, His brother trees among. He'd be four times as tall as me, And live three times as long.

  Catherine Maria Fanshawe

  Brother, Children, Blessed

  Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1876). “The Literary Remains of Catherine Maria Fanshawe”, p.71

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