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And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say? We know the very Lord of Day Is dash’d with wandering isles of night. If all was good and fair we met, This earth had been a paradise; It never look’d to human eyes Since Adam left his garden yet.
And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say? We know the very Lord of Day Is dash’d with wandering isles of night. If all was good and fair we met, This earth had been a paradise; It never look’d to human eyes Since Adam left his garden yet.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Alfred Tennyson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 176 · printed citation: Tennyson · subject: DELIGHT
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