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... He knows with what strange fires He mixed this dust. Hereditary bent That hedges in intent He knows, be sure, the God who shaped thy brain. He loves the souls He made, He knows His own hand laid On each the mark of some ancestral stain.
... He knows with what strange fires He mixed this dust. Hereditary bent That hedges in intent He knows, be sure, the God who shaped thy brain. He loves the souls He made, He knows His own hand laid On each the mark of some ancestral stain.
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- Author or tradition
- Anna Reeve Aldrich (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
In print by 1921: recorded in My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 24 · printed citation: Anna Reeve Aldrich. · compiler notes excluded
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