https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2008/04/02/pretend-were-in-love/ music, memories, and microfiction from TK Major Thu, 29 Oct 2015 21:11:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2008/04/02/pretend-were-in-love/#comment-104 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:14:00 +0000 http://ayearofsongs.org/blg/?p=382#comment-104 Only – but this is rare – when a beloved hand is laid in ours, when, jaded with the rush and glare of the interminable hours, our eyes can in another’s eyes read clear, when our world-deafened ear is by the tones of a loved voice caressed – a bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast, and a lost pulse of feeling stirs again; the eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, and what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know. A man becomes aware of his life’s flow…Matthew Arnold

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