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How pure The grace, the gentleness of virtuous age! Though solemn, not austere; though wisely dead To passion, and the wildering dreams of hope, Not unalive to tenderness and truth,— The good old man is honoured and revered, And breathes upon the young-limbed race around A grey and venerable charm of years.
How pure The grace, the gentleness of virtuous age! Though solemn, not austere; though wisely dead To passion, and the wildering dreams of hope, Not unalive to tenderness and truth,— The good old man is honoured and revered, And breathes upon the young-limbed race around A grey and venerable charm of years.
Approximate author period: c. 1831 AD · industrial
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- Robert Montgomery
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- Approximate author period: c. 1831 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 23 · printed citation: Robert Montgomery · subject: AGE
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