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'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial

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William Wordsworth
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Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

Weak is the Will of Man.

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