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4 Richard Watson Gilder Quotes

Richard Watson Gilder offers lyrical musings on love and light that feel like a gentle, hopeful whisper.

Richard Watson Gilder quotes

  1. Not from the whole wide world I chose thee, Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea! The wide, wide world could not inclose thee, For thou art the whole wide world to me.

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  2. Through love to light! Oh wonderful the way That leads from darkness to the perfect day!

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  3. I am a woman-therefore I may not Call to him, cry to him, Fly to him, Bid him delay not.

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  4. O white and midnight sky, O starry bath, Wash me in thy pure, heavenly crystal flood: Cleanse me, ye stars, from earthly soil and scath- Let not one taint remain in spirit or blood!

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