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Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismay’d, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul: Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his last, faltering accents whisper’d praise.
Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismay’d, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul: Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his last, faltering accents whisper’d praise.
Approximate author period: c. 1751 AD · early modern
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- Oliver Goldsmith
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- Approximate author period: c. 1751 AD · early modern
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 133 · printed citation: Goldsmith · subject: COMFORT
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