For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Good Bye.
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- attributed · historical anthology
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- c. 1842 AD · industrial
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- Public domain (United States)
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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