 Were't in mortals' power to do. She doth tell me where to borrow Comfort in the midst of sorrow ; Makes the desolatest place To her presence be a grace ; And the blackest discontents Be her fairest ornaments.  Reuben Apsley - Page 228by Horace Smith - 1827Full view - About this book
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