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This is the place. Stand still, my steed,— Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.
This is the place. Stand still, my steed,— Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.
Approximate author period: c. 1844 AD · industrial
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- Henry W. Longfellow
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- Approximate author period: c. 1844 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
A Gleam of Sunshine.
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