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Vote: | Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay! |
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Vote: | Harvest-time; With russet wood-fruit thick upon the ground, 'mid crumpled ferns and delicate blue harebells. |
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Vote: | Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? |
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Vote: | Is life but death, and love its funeral pall? |
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Vote: | Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes. |
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Vote: | O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire? |
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Ada Cambridge (1844-1926) was an English writer.
She wasborn in Norfolk, England. She contributed to Lays of the Pious Minstrels (1862), and she married the Rev. G. F. Cross. They lived, from 1870 to 1909, in various country towns in Australia, and at Williamston, in Victoria. She wrote a number of novels and books of hymns, in addition to her books of poetry.
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*Hymns on the Litany (1865)
*Hymns on the Holy Communion (1866)
*The Manor House: and Other Poems (1875)
*Unspoken Thoughts (1887)
*At Midnight: and Other Stories (1897)
*Thirty Years in Australia (1903)
*Sisters (1904)
*The Eternal Feminine (1907)
*The Hand in the Dark: and Other Poems (1913)
*The Making of Rachel Rowe (1914)
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