“Darkness is strong, and so is Sin,
But surely God endures forever.”

— James Russell Lowell

Villa Franca.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819–1891

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“Darkness is strong, and so is Sin,
But surely God endures forever.”