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We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From graven stone and written scroll, From all old flower-fields of the soul.
We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From graven stone and written scroll, From all old flower-fields of the soul.
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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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 41; printed byline: John Greenleaf Whittier; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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