"Why thus longing, thus forever sighing For the far-off, unattained, and dim, While the beautiful all round thee lying Offers up its low, perpetual hymn?"
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Why thus longing?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Harriet Winslow Sewall
Harriet Winslow Sewall (June 20, 1819 â April 19, 1889) was an American poet, and editor of the collected letters of Lydia Maria Child.
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