“Something the heart must have to cherish,
Must love and joy and sorrow learn;
Something with passion clasp, or perish
And in itself to ashes burn.”

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

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American poet 1807–1882

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