John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
The Worship of Nature, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“If thou would'st have me sing and play
As once I play'd and sung,
First take this time-worn lute away,
And bring one freshly strung.”
If Thou would'st have Me sing and play.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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