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So many minds did gird their orbs with beams, Though one did fling the fire, Heaven flowed upon the soul in many dreams Of high desire. Thus truth was multiplied on truth, the world Like one great garden show’d, And thro’ the wreaths of floating dark upcurl’d Rare sunrise flow’d.
So many minds did gird their orbs with beams, Though one did fling the fire, Heaven flowed upon the soul in many dreams Of high desire. Thus truth was multiplied on truth, the world Like one great garden show’d, And thro’ the wreaths of floating dark upcurl’d Rare sunrise flow’d.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Alfred Tennyson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 628 · printed citation: Tennyson · subject: TRUTH
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