“I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.”

—  John Greenleaf Whittier

The eternal Goodness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slave… 1807–1892

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