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“God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Aurora Leigh. Book ii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 46f705800b901cd734cf5b2d15787f4e1a91a48701592bf094bde127ef1635f2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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