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Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. ’Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh, life, not death, for which we pant; More life, and fuller, that we want.
Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. ’Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh, life, not death, for which we pant; More life, and fuller, that we want.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Alfred Tennyson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 250 · printed citation: Tennyson (The Two Voices). · compiler notes excluded
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