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Live thou! and of the grain and husk, the grape, / And ivy berry, choose; and still depart / From death to death thro' life and life, and find / Nearer and ever nearer Him, who wrought / Not Matter, nor the finite-infinite, / But this main miracle, that thou art thou, / With power on thine own act and on the world.
Live thou! and of the grain and husk, the grape, / And ivy berry, choose; and still depart / From death to death thro' life and life, and find / Nearer and ever nearer Him, who wrought / Not Matter, nor the finite-infinite, / But this main miracle, that thou art thou, / With power on thine own act and on the world.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- Alfred Tennyson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Tennyson. · page_251
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