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My ear is pained, my soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
My ear is pained, my soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- Author or tradition
- William Cowper
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- Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- Life and Literature (copyright 1910) (1910 AD)
Number 2119 · printed citation: Cowper
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