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Methinks I love all common things, The common air, the common flower, The dear, kind, common thought that springs From hearts that have no other dower, No other wealth, no other power, Save love; and will not that repay For all else fortune tears away?
Methinks I love all common things, The common air, the common flower, The dear, kind, common thought that springs From hearts that have no other dower, No other wealth, no other power, Save love; and will not that repay For all else fortune tears away?
Approximate author period: c. 1830 AD · industrial
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- Bryan W. Procter
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- Approximate author period: c. 1830 AD · industrial
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 188; printed byline: Bryan Waller Procter; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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