The Departure, st. 3
The Day-Dream (1842)
“O Paradise! O Paradise!
Who doth not crave for rest?
Who would not seek the happy land
Where they that love are blest?”
Paradise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Who doth not crave for rest?
Who would not seek the happy land
Where they that love are bles…" by Frederick William Faber?
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British hymn writer and theologian 1814–1863Related quotes
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Context: The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:
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