Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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And while the lamp holds out to burn,

The vilest sinner may return.

Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book i. Hymn 88.

Strange that a harp of thousand strings

Should keep in tune so long!

Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book ii. Hymn 19.

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.

Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book ii. Hymn 63.

The tall, the wise, the reverend head

Must lie as low as ours.