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Stream of the living world Where dash the billows of strife!— One plunge in the mighty torrent Is a year of tamer life! City of glorious days, Of hope, and labour and mirth, With room and to spare, on thy splendid bays For the ships of all the earth!
Stream of the living world Where dash the billows of strife!— One plunge in the mighty torrent Is a year of tamer life! City of glorious days, Of hope, and labour and mirth, With room and to spare, on thy splendid bays For the ships of all the earth!
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- R. W. Gilder (identity unresolved)
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 552 · quotation 4 · R. W. Gilder · The City.
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