Come calm content serene and sweet, O gently guide my pilgrim feet To find thy hermit cell.
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A. L. Barbauld Quote
“Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear,— Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time, Say not "Good-night," but in some brighter clime, Bid me "Good-morning."”
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