"There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof."

Flowers, Heaven

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"There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof."

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