“Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate,
Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours
Weeping upon his bed has sate,
He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , book Hyperion

Motto, Hyperion, book i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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American poet 1807–1882

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