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I shall never be friends again with roses; I shall loathe sweet tunes, where a note grown strong Relents and recoils, and climbs and closes, As a wave of the sea turned back by song.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Relents towards the Christians, 462 Galilæans, their indifference to death, i.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole