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Why thus longing, thus forever sighing
For the far-off, unattained, and dim,
While the beautiful all round thee lying
Offers up its low, perpetual hymn?
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Why thus longing?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 

Harriet Winslow Sewall

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