Bayard Taylor, The Poet's Journal, Third Evening.
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Because the gift of Song was chiefly lent, To give consoling music for the joys We lack, and not for those which we possess.
— Bayard Taylor on Song
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Source: Wikiquote: "Song" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 732-33.)
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About Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylor (11 January 1825 – 19 December 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat.
About Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylor (11 January 1825 – 19 December 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat.
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