“So dear a life your arms enfold,
Whose crying is a cry for gold.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
The Daisy, Stanza 24; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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