"Heaven from the hopeless doubter The true believer makes: Against the darkness outer The light God's likeness takes."
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Poets from the United StatesEditors from the United States19th-century poets from the United StatesJournalists from New Jersey
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Part IV. XVII: "He Knows Not the Path of Duty", line 9; p. 100.
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Richard Watson Gilder
Richard Watson Gilder (February 8, 1844 – November 19, 1909) was an American poet and editor.
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