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There is no unbelief: Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod, And waits to see it push away the clod, Trusts in God.

There is no unbelief: Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod, And waits to see it push away the clod, Trusts in God.

Approximate author period: c. 1839 AD · industrial

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Edward Bulwer Lytton
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Approximate author period: c. 1839 AD · industrial
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Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)

Complete signed selection 548; printed byline: Bulwer-Lytton; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901

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