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Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight
Quote byJohn Greenleaf Whittier · 1807–1892
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Chapel of the Hermits, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
English (original)
Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight, Through present wrong the eternal right; And, step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man;
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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