| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 47751 |
| QUOTATION: | I saw how all the trembling ages past,
Molded to her by deep and deeper breath,
Neared to the hour when Beauty breathes her last
And knows herself in death. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | George William Russell [A.E.] (1867–1935), Irish poet, painter, economist (pseudonym of George William Russell). The Great Breath (l. 9–12). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
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