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'T is sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store.

'T is sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store.

Approximate author period: c. 1829 AD · industrial

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Author or tradition
John Keble
Attribution: attributed
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Approximate author period: c. 1829 AD · industrial
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

Burial of the Dead.

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