“Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.”
John Logan (1748–1788) Scottish minister and historian
To the Cuckoo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Since what unnumbered year
Hast thou kept watch and ward
And o’er the buried Land of Fear
So grimly held thy guard?”
The Sphynx (published 1864).
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Hast thou kept watch and ward
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So grimly held thy guard?" by Henry Howard Brownell?
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For if I was swarthy once
Thou canst regard me now;
Since Thou hast regarded me,
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