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Through the harsh noises of our day A low sweet prelude finds its way: Through clouds of doubt and creeds of fear A light is breaking, calm and clear. Henceforth my heart shall sigh no more For olden time and holier shore: God's love and blessing, then and there Are now and here and everywhere.
Through the harsh noises of our day A low sweet prelude finds its way: Through clouds of doubt and creeds of fear A light is breaking, calm and clear. Henceforth my heart shall sigh no more For olden time and holier shore: God's love and blessing, then and there Are now and here and everywhere.
Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- John G. Whittier
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- Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 157; printed byline: John Greenleaf Whittier; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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