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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
Approximate author period: c. 1851 AD · industrial
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- Bayard Taylor
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- Approximate author period: c. 1851 AD · industrial
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- Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations (1901) (1901 AD)
Quote1888 · printed citation: BAYARD TAYLOR: Improvisations, Pt. v.
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