“The love of the Right, tho' cast down, the hate of victorious Ill,
All are sparks from the central fire of a boundless beneficent will.”

— Lewis Morris (poet)

A new Orphic Hymn, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Welsh poet in the English language 1833–1907

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