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Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.
Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.
Approximate author period: c. 1804 AD · industrial
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- Reginald Heber
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- Approximate author period: c. 1804 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
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