And all day long, so close and near, As in a mystic dream I… - Dinah Craik

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And all day long, so close and near, As in a mystic dream I hear
Their gentle accents kind and dear — The old familiar voices. They have no sound that I can reach — But silence sweeter is than speech;

Dinah Craik

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About Dinah Craik

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (20 April 1826 – 12 October 1887) was an English novelist and poet. Born Dinah Maria Mulock, the name under which her first works were published, her work has also been presented as by Dinah Craik, Dinah Maria Craik, Dinah Mulock Craik, and simply Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik.

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Pen Names: Miss Mulock

Birth Name: Dinah Maria Mulock

Alternative Names: Dinah Maria Craik • Mrs. Craik • Mrs Craik • Dinah Craix • Dinah (Maria) Mulock

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Two hands upon the breast, And labour’s done; Two pale feet crossed in rest, The race is won.

Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, — Outward bound.

Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences.

And all day long, so close and near, As in a mystic dream I hear Their gentle accents kind and dear — The old familiar voices. They have no sound tha… - Dinah Craik

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