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Calm Soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city’s jar, That there abides a peace of thine Man did not make, and cannot mar.

Calm Soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city’s jar, That there abides a peace of thine Man did not make, and cannot mar.

Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial

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Matthew Arnold
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Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)

Page 236 · printed citation: Matthew Arnold (Lines written in Kensington Gardens). · compiler notes excluded

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