Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.

Eliza Cook
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  1. How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
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  3. I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.
  4. Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
  5. A cheer then for the noble breast that fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.
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