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VI: Analytical.
“A balance of power”—making the poker stand up straight in your
hand.
“Weeping birch”—the kind of stick that makes you weep.
“Eating cares”—troubles because you are tired of eating.
“Spoiler’s hand”—your father’s hand because he spoils you.
“The balm of childhood”—what makes children stop there crying.
“He issued a papal bull”—the news written on the board outside the
office.
“I would that my tongue could utter” means its to much trouble to
write out his ideas.
Tell me not in mournful numbers,
“Life is but an empty dream!”
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Psalm of Life
—HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
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