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O Earth so full of dreary noises! O men with wailing in your voices! O delvèd gold, the wailers heap! O strife, O curse that o’er it fall! God strikes a silence through you all And giveth His beloved sleep.
O Earth so full of dreary noises! O men with wailing in your voices! O delvèd gold, the wailers heap! O strife, O curse that o’er it fall! God strikes a silence through you all And giveth His beloved sleep.
Approximate author period: c. 1833 AD · industrial
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- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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- Approximate author period: c. 1833 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 157 · printed citation: E. B. Browning (The Sleep). · compiler notes excluded
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