“My bark is wafted to the strand
By breath Divine;
And on the helm there rests a hand
Other than mine.”

— Henry Alford

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 280.

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English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poe… 1810–1871

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