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And those who heard the Singers three Disputed which the best might be; For still their music seemed to start Discordant echoes in each heart. But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach. "These are the three great chords of might, And he whose ear is tuned aright, Will hear no discord in the three, But the most perfect harmony."
And those who heard the Singers three Disputed which the best might be; For still their music seemed to start Discordant echoes in each heart. But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach. "These are the three great chords of might, And he whose ear is tuned aright, Will hear no discord in the three, But the most perfect harmony."
Approximate author period: c. 1844 AD · industrial
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- Henry W. Longfellow
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- Approximate author period: c. 1844 AD · industrial
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 184; printed byline: Henry W. Longfellow; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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