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Let the thick curtain fall; I better know than all How little I have gained. How vast the unattained. Not by the page word-painted Let life be banned or sainted; Deeper than written scroll The colours of the soul. Sweeter than any sung My songs that found no tongue; Nobler than any fact My wish that failed of act.
Let the thick curtain fall; I better know than all How little I have gained. How vast the unattained. Not by the page word-painted Let life be banned or sainted; Deeper than written scroll The colours of the soul. Sweeter than any sung My songs that found no tongue; Nobler than any fact My wish that failed of act.
Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- John G. Whittier
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- Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 195 · printed citation: J. G. Whittier (My Triumph). · compiler notes excluded
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