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Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!

Approximate author period: c. 1806 AD · industrial

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Author or tradition
Lord Byron
Attribution: attributed
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Approximate author period: c. 1806 AD · industrial
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

The Bride of Abydos. Canto ii. Stanza 20.

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