Christina RossettiWhat are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.
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We all have to face difficult things in life. Some of those difficult things are big and some are small. We all have to deal with sorrow, sea-sand and sadness at some point in our lives. What we face, the size of it and how long we have to deal with it can make a lot of difference.
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