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<h3><i>THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD.</i></h3>
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<p>What’s the best thing in the world?</p>
<p>June-rose, by May-dew impearled;</p>
<p>Sweet south-wind, that means no rain;</p>
<p>Truth, not cruel to a friend;</p>
<p>Pleasure, not in haste to end;</p>
<p>Beauty, not self-decked and curled</p>
<p>Till its pride is over-plain;</p>
<p>Light, that never makes you wink;</p>
<p>Memory, that gives no pain;</p>
<p>Love, when, <i>so</i>, you’re loved again.</p>
<p>What’s the best thing in the world?</p>
<p>—Something out of it, I think.</p>
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