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
“So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.”
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