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So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.

So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.

Thomas de Quincey
Children, Oxford, Tears
'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' (1822) pt. 1

Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.

Thomas de Quincey
Children, Hate, Grief
Thomas De Quincey, Grevel Lindop (1998). “The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: And Other Writings”, p.103, Oxford Paperbacks

Flowers... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God only by them - when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.

Thomas de Quincey
Children, Flower, Clouds
"Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". Book by Thomas de Quincey, 1821.

Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.

Thomas de Quincey
Children, Flower, Clouds
Thomas De Quincey (1856). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater, and Selected Essays”

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