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...mocked him with emptiness. And almost two thouand years later the Christian Laureate sang— " Oh, Christ ! that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we lovcM, that they might tell us What and where they be." Every generation calls on its beloved dead...

..." that I could not be tempted at * " Oh that it were possible, for one short hour, to see The sonls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be !"— TENNYSON. this time to engage in any undertaking, however short, but the literary project which...

...of happiness brighter than any she had known for a long while. 227 CHAPTER XIV. TIDINGS AT LAST. ' A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee....loved, that they might tell us What and where they be 1 ' — Maud. ' I SHALL send Dick to school in England,' said Mr. Stanley one day, as he paused outside...

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...overwhelming evidence. Mr. Dickens could scarcely believe it, although he might wish with Tennyson — " Oh that it were possible, for one short hour, to see...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be !" Howitt sent a letter to one of the weekly papers, stating that " Mr. Dickens wrote me some time...

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...problems that are apt to press on the spirit, pressing for an answer, though answer there can be none. " Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour...loved, that they might tell us What and where they be ! " Webster's Duchess of Maln has a larger wish in point of time, and indeed of purpose too : " —...