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As the moths around a taper, :As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, :So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.
As the moths around a taper, :As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, :So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.
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- E. B. Browning (identity unresolved)
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 26 · quotation 5 · E. B. Browning · A Child Asleep.
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