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The pure memories given
To help our joy on earth, when earth is past,
Shall help our joy in heaven.
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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 407.

 

Margaret Junkin Preston

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