Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and house… - John Greenleaf Whittier

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Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge! God pity them both! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall; For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

John Greenleaf Whittier

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John Greenleaf Whittier (17 December 1807 – 7 September 1892) was an American Quaker poet and abolitionist.

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Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!

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Press bravely onward! — not in vain Your generous trust in human kind; The good which bloodshed could not gain Your peaceful zeal shall find.

The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.

Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

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