Quote#Time
I look'd far back into the past, and lo! in bright array
Quote byHenry Glassford Bell · 1803–1874
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Summer and Winter Hours (1831), "Mary Queen of Scots", l. 1.
English (original)
I look'd far back into the past, and lo! in bright array, I saw, as in a dream, the forms of ages pass'd away. It was a stately convent, with its old and lofty walls, And gardens with their broad green walks, where soft the footstep falls.
— Henry Glassford Bell
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