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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Epes Sargent. (1813–1881) (continued)
 
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    When the night-wind bewaileth the fall of the year,
And sweeps from the forest the leaves that are sere;
I wake from my slumber and list to the roar
And it saith to my spirit, “No more, never more!”
          When the Night-wind bewaileth.
 
Christopher Pearse Cranch. (1813–1892)
 
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    Thought is deeper than all speech,
  Feeling deeper than all thought;
Souls to souls can never teach
  What unto themselves was taught.
          Stanzas.
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    We are spirits clad in veils;
  Man by man was never seen;
All our deep communing fails
  To remove the shadowy screen.
          Stanzas.
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    No night so wild but brings the constant sun
  With love and power untold;
No time so dark but through its woof there run
  Some blessed threads of gold.
          Oh Love supreme.
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    O Light divine! we need no fuller test
  That all is ordered well;
We know enough to trust that all is best
  Where Love and Wisdom dwell.
          Oh Love supreme.
 
Joseph Edwards Carpenter. (1813– ?)
 
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    What are the wild waves saying,
  Sister, the whole day long,
That ever amid our playing
  I hear but their low, lone song?
          What are the wild Waves saying?