| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 40861 |
| QUOTATION: | But famished field and blackened tree Bear flowers in Eden never known. Blossoms of grief and charity Bloom in these darkened fields alone. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Edwin Muir (18871959), Scottish poet. One Foot in Eden (l. 2023). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 12501950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press. |
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