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So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be.
So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be.
Approximate author period: c. 1809 AD · industrial
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- Alfred Tennyson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1809 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
In Memoriam. lxxiii. Stanza 1.
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