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

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Familiar clasp of things divine.

A Vision of Poets.

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben,

Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when

The world was worthy of such men.

A Vision of Poets.

Knowledge by suffering entereth,

And life is perfected by death.

A Vision of Poets. Conclusion.

Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.