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Defect can refer to:

  • in manufacturing, the failure of a product to conform to specification.
  • to abandon allegience to your country and go to another. Why does the recipient country allow this?

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Idols worshipped both in age and youth; Soul-destroying, blinding us to truth. All unreal dreams that fade and perish, Airy phantoms that we blindly cherish, All the brilliance of the earthly toy Is not gold, but dross and foul alloy. Earth-born idols, lovely but in seeming, On Love's holy shrine we place them dreaming, Through the far-off vapours, dense and dark, 'Mid the angry waves, the storm-beat bark. So our earthly idols, vain, deceiving, Fill us with false hopes, forsake us, leaving From earth's sceptres lift our yearning sigh That shall be ours when we have gained the high. Not the joy whose end is gloom and sadness.html">sadness-- Patience hath her crown--eternal gladness-- IN WINTER DAYS. Now are flown- Balmy twilights--all are gone! Hope's bright visions, carmine-tinted, Dreams that mocked us in the sunlight Wakes the flowers.html">flowers Safely thro' the Winter hours; But the sad winds round me sighing She hath treasures in her bosom Worse than vain, Ne'er can bring to me again! Slow lingering months with swifter pace move on-- This cloud athwart the sky of summer thrown-- Those talks and rambled when the day was done And I am left in sadness here alone! Parted! Oh, me, he is for ever gone! How far off seem those joys we both have known, When all its sunny hours seemed past and o'er, Like some sere leaf he fell, to rise no more. The spring shall come, and leaves grow green again, Sunshine and flowers shall deck the hill and plane, .

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