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"The tomb of him who would have made The world too glad and free."
Thomas K. Hervey / The Devil's Progress.
The Devil's Progress.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute."
Thomas K. Hervey / The Devil's Progress.
The Devil's Progress.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A love that took an early root, And had an early doom."
Thomas K. Hervey / The Devil's Progress.
The Devil's Progress.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Like ships, that sailed for sunny isles, But never came to shore."
Thomas K. Hervey / The Devil's Progress.
The Devil's Progress.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold, The hairs on his brow were silver-white, And his blood was thin and old."
Thomas K. Hervey / The Devil's Progress.
The Devil's Progress.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain