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Page 57 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Dorothy: A Tale Volume 401 of Collection of British Authors |
| Author | Margaret Agnes Paull |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1856 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 11 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 315 pages |
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