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Date: 1838
" But hope rose gently in the mother's breast; / For well she knew that neither grief nor joy / Pain'd without hope, or pleased without alloy"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1859
"(For sure thy sire had not a heart of steel)"
preview | full record— Skinner, Rev. John (1721-1807)
Date: 1862
"O may not gold, according to its kind, / Twist round your heart, and grow upon your mind!"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1891
"Yet in his stern creed lay a tender heart, / The husk o'erlaid a wealth of human kindness / And love, that fain their wisdom would impart / To purge the young soul of its earthly blindness"
preview | full record— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)
