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See! full of hope, thou trustest to the earth The golden seed, and waitest till the Spring Summons the buried to a happier birth; But, in Time’s furrow duly scattering, Think’st thou how deeds, by wisdom sown, may be Silently ripen’d for eternity?
See! full of hope, thou trustest to the earth The golden seed, and waitest till the Spring Summons the buried to a happier birth; But, in Time’s furrow duly scattering, Think’st thou how deeds, by wisdom sown, may be Silently ripen’d for eternity?
Approximate author period: c. 1782 AD · early modern
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- Schiller
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- Approximate author period: c. 1782 AD · early modern
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 674 · printed citation: Schiller · subject: WISDOM
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