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"Four of us together dwell— Two from Heaven and two from Hell; Four of us under the selfsame sky— Love and Death and a Dream and I."
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Samuel HoffensteinYou buy some flowers for your table; You tend them tenderly as you’re — Samuel Hoffenstein
"You buy some flowers for your table; You tend them tenderly as you’re able; You fetch them water from hither and thither— What thanks do you get for it all? They wither."
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Samuel Hoffenstein
Samuel Hoffenstein
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Samuel "Sam" Hoffenstein was a screenwriter and a musical composer. Born in Odessa, he emigrated to the United States and began a career in New York City as a newspaper writer and in the entertainment business. In 1931 he moved to Los Angeles, where he lived for the rest of his life and wrote the scripts for over thirty movies. These movies included Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Miracle Man
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"Oh, how various is the scene Allowed to Man for his demesne!"
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"When trouble drives me into rhyme, Which is two-thirds of all the time, What peace a thought like this can give— Great is the age in which we live!"
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"When you’re away, I’m restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only Here’s the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here."
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"When the wind is in the tree, It makes a noise just like the sea, As if there were not noise enough To bother one, without that stuff."
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"The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep."
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