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Letter "A" » Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes
«From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea»
Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
(Critic, Poet)
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Dead Sea, rise up, set free, thanksgiving, weariest
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