Quote#Nature
Though like the wanderer
Quote bySarah Fuller Flower Adams · 1805–1848
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Nearer, my God, to Thee (c. 1841).
English (original)
Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee.
— Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
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