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High thoughts and noble in all lands Help me, my soul is fed by such; But ah, the touch of lips and hands, The human touch! Warm, vital, close, life's symbols dear, These need I most and now and here.
High thoughts and noble in all lands Help me, my soul is fed by such; But ah, the touch of lips and hands, The human touch! Warm, vital, close, life's symbols dear, These need I most and now and here.
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- Richard Burton
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 63; printed byline: Richard Burton; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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