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Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- James Russell Lowell
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- Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865.
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