David Thomas (born 1813) (1813–1894) 19th-century Welsh preacher
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 403.
“These struggling tides of life that seem
In wayward, aimless course to tend,
Are eddies of the mighty stream
That rolls to its appointed end.”
The Crowded Street http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page253, st. 10 (1864)
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