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“Why thus longing, thus forever sighing For the far-off, unattain'd, and dim, While the beautiful all round thee lying Offers up its low, perpetual hymn?”
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- Source:
- Why thus longing?
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ba222f3c2ca71faeac8166e72e0450d62847eb8ac7e7c288b51377b07d9b4bbc
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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