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Virtue Stands like the sun, and all which rolls around Drinks life, and light, and glory, from her aspect.

Virtue Stands like the sun, and all which rolls around Drinks life, and light, and glory, from her aspect.

Approximate author period: c. 1806 AD · industrial

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Author or tradition
Lord Byron
Attribution: attributed
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Approximate author period: c. 1806 AD · industrial
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A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)

Page 645 · printed citation: Byron · subject: VIRTUE

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