“The way is long and dreary,
The path is bleak and bare;
Our feet are worn and weary,
But we will not despair;
More weary was Thy burden,
More desolate Thy ways,
O Lamb of God, who takest
The sin of the world away,
Have mercy upon us.”

— Adelaide Anne Procter

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 110.

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English poet and songwriter 1825–1864

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