“Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun,
Grow pure by being purely shone upon.”

— Thomas Moore

Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part I-III: The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan

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Irish poet, singer and songwriter 1779–1852

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