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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1)

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The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes many notable religious and devotional poems and hymns from across the centuries, covering subjects such as God; Christ; the Holy Spirit; prayer and aspiration; faith; hope; love; service; the Sabbath; worship; and creed. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by Congregational pastor and progressive writer Washington Gladden (1836-1918). - Summary by Tomas Peter (7 hr 48 min)

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Religion and Poetry by Washington Gladden

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Song: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning

0:57

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A Passage in the Life of Saint Augustine by Anonymous

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Meditations of a Hindu Prince by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall

5:17

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Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson

1:18

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Hymn to Zeus by Cleanthes

4:23

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Te Deum Laudamus: A Version from the American Episcopal Church Prayer-Book by A…

4:11

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The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope

3:12

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Ode: From 'The Spectator' by Joseph Addison

1:32

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Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See (Hymn and Prayer for the Use of Believer…

1:54

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Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

6:09

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The Hills of the Lord by William Channing Gannett

2:20

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Sunrise by Charles Tennyson Turner

1:25

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God and Man: From the 'Essay on Man,' Epistles I and IV by Alexander Pope

5:22

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Light Shining out of Darkness by William Cowper

1:25

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God by Gavriíl Románovitch Dershávin

6:34

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God Is Everywhere by Robert Nicoll

2:19

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Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep by Emma Hart Willard

2:23

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Good-bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson

2:06

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Our God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts

2:34

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A Mighty Fortress Is Our God ('Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott') by Martin Luther

1:24

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Delight in God by Francis Quarles

3:42

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The Will of God by Frederick William Faber

2:42

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The Voyage by Caroline Atherton Mason

1:39

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The Love of God by Eliza Scudder

1:45

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Praise to God by Anna Lætitia Barbauld

3:12

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Lead, Kindly Light by John Henry Newman

1:32

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The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier

4:21

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Strong Son of God, Immortal Love: From the Introduction of 'In Memoriam' by Alf…

4:54

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O Little Town of Bethlehem by Phillips Brooks

3:04

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The Angels' Song by Edmund Hamilton Sears

2:01

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Epiphany by Reginald Heber

1:44

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On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by John Milton

11:44

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A Christmas Hymn by Alfred Domett

2:54

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Tryste Noël by Louise Imogen Guiney

1:37

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The Flight into Egypt (A Ballad) by Francis Mahony (Father Prout)

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Cana by James Freeman Clarke

1:23

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The Lost Sheep ('The Ninety and Nine') by Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane

2:13

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De Sheepfol' by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene

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The Good Shepherd with the Kid by Matthew Arnold

1:21

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Two Sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1:19

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A Ballad of Trees and the Master by Sidney Lanier

1:11

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Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Fra Jacopone

3:22

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Myrrh-Bearers by Margaret Junkin Preston

2:57

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Litany by Sir Robert Grant

2:08

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The Christ by Richard Chenevix Trench

1:20

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Abide with Me by Henry Francis Lyte

5:27

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The Disciples after the Ascension by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

3:20

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Wrestling Jacob by Charles Wesley

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The Conversion of Saint Paul by John Keble

5:01

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'Rock of Ages' by Edward H. Rice

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Art Thou Weary? by Saint Stephen the Sabaite

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When Gathering Clouds around I View by Sir Robert Grant

3:19

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The Star of Bethlehem by Henry Kirke White

1:44

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Love to Christ: From 'An Hymne of Heavenly Love' by Edmund Spenser

2:21

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The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Theodore Parker

1:24

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Knocking, Ever Knocking by Harriet Beecher Stowe

3:30

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To-morrow by Lope de Vega

1:29

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I Gave My Life for Thee by Frances Ridley Havergal

3:06

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Jesus Shall Reign by Isaac Watts

1:14

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Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio by Alexander Pope

8:10

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Dies Iræ by Thomas à Celano

3:41

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My God, I Love Thee by Saint Francis Xavier

1:42

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Veni Creator Spiritus by Saint Gregory

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Veni Sancte Spiritus by King Robert II of France

2:17

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O Fire of God, the Comforter ('O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti') by Saint Hildegard

2:34

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The Holy Spirit by Robert Herrick

4:02

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Hope of the Human Heart: From 'Anima Mundi' by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Ho…

1:11

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What is Prayer? by James Montgomery

2:02

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The Time for Prayer by Georgiana Bennett

2:07

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Seasons of Prayer by Henry Ware, Jr.

4:11

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Exhortation to Prayer by Margaret Mercer

2:54

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Prayer and Repentance: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare

3:19

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The Caliph and Satan (Versified from Tholuck's Translation out of the Persian) …

5:12

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Darkness Is Thinning by Saint Gregory the Great

1:14

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Praise by George Herbert

1:15

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Prayer by Mary, Queen of Hungary

1:37

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Desire by Matthew Arnold

3:24

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Why Thus Longing? by Harriet Winslow Sewall

2:48

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Prayer and Answer by Oliver Huckel

2:16

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The Aim by Charles G.D. Roberts

1:13

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The Love of God Supreme by Gerhard Tersteegen

2:57

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In a Lecture-Room by Arthur Hugh Clough

1:19

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From the Recesses of a Lowly Spirit by Sir John Bowring

1:26

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The Higher Good by Theodore Parker

1:14

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Ascription by Charles G.D. Roberts

1:33

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O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee by Washington Gladden

1:37

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Faith by George Santayana

1:16

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The Fight of Faith by Anne Askewe

3:04

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Doubt and Faith: From 'In Memoriam,' XCV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2:01

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My Times Are in Thy Hand by Christopher Newman Hall

2:45

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A Mystical Ecstasy by Francis Quarles

1:34

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The Mystic's Vision by Mathilde Blind

3:14

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The Call by George Herbert

0:59

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Hope: From 'The Pleasures of Hope' by Thomas Campbell

2:48

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A Query by Edmund Whytehead Howson

2:23

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Humility by James Montgomery

1:19

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King Robert of Sicily by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Service: From 'Pippa Passes' by Robert Browning

1:18

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The Two Angels by John Greenleaf Whittier

2:30

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The Self-Exiled by Walter C. Smith

6:27

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Sympathy: From 'Ion,' Act I. Sc. 2 by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd

1:31

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Sir Galahad by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

4:29

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Flowers without Fruit by John Henry Newman

1:02

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Santa Filomena (Florence Nightingale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2:28

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In the Air by Lucy Larcom

1:35

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Soggarth Aroon by John Banim

2:20

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The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell

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The Sister of Charity by Gerald Joseph Griffen

4:37

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What I Live For by George Linnæus Banks

2:07

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If We Had but a Day by Mary Lowe Dickinson

1:28

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Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt

1:39

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Love by Charles Francis Richardson

1:22

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Sunday Morning Bells by Dinah M. Mulock Craik

1:23

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Sabbath Hymn on the Mountains by John Stuart Blackie

2:58

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The Sabbath Morning by John Leyden

1:31

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The Poor Man's Day: From 'The Sabbath' by James Grahame

3:31

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The Sabbath of the Soul by Anna Lætitia Barbauld

1:04

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Vesper Hymn by Samuel Longfellow

1:12

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Vesper Hymn by Eliza Scudder

2:08

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Amazing, Beauteous Change! by Philip Doddridge

2:11

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The Word by William Walsham How

1:36

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The Chimes of England by Arthur Cleveland Coxe

3:24

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The Old Village Choir by Benjamin F. Taylor

3:16

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A Lancashire Doxology by Dinah M. Mulock Craik

1:55

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Rebecca's Hymn: From 'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott

2:13

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The Book of God by Horatius Bonar

2:10

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The Meeting by John Greenleaf Whittier

12:09

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The Living Temple by Oliver Wendell Holmes

3:10

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Of Hym that Togyder wyll Serve Two Maysters by Sebastian Brandt

2:43

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Religion and Doctrine by John Hay

2:56

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Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning

11:11

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The Religion of Hudibras: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Samuel Butler

1:54

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The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson

4:21

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On an Infant (Which Died before Baptism) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

0:53

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What Was His Creed? by Anonymous

2:33

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The Philosopher Toad by Rebecca S. Nichols

3:36

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Her Creed by Sarah Knowles Bolton

1:53

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My Creed by Alice Cary

1:33

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Give Me Thy Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter

4:38

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O, May I Join the Choir Invisible! by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot)

3:05

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O Yet We Trust that Somehow Good: From 'In Memoriam,' LIII by Alfred, Lord Tenn…

1:34

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Day Breaks by Charles Mackay

4:33

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My Home: A Thanksgiving to God for a House in the Green Parish of Devonshire by…

2:42

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Peace by George Herbert

2:39

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Peace by Frances Ridley Havergal

2:50

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Living Waters by Caroline S. Spencer

1:53

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Devotion by Philip Massinger

0:44

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The Seaside Well by Anonymous

3:43

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Ultima Veritas by Washington Gladden

1:48

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The End of the Play by William Makepeace Thackeray

4:53

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The New Year: From 'In Memoriam,' CV by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2:00

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Life by Jones Very

1:16

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