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

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JOHN G. WHITTIER.  1807- ——.

So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn

Which once he wore;

The glory from his gray hairs gone

For evermore!

Ichabod!

Making their lives a prayer.

To A. K. On receiving a Basket of Sea-Mosses.

And step by step, since time began,

I see the steady gain of man.