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John Greenleaf Whittier - Yet sometimes glimpses on my...
Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight, Through present wrong the eternal right; And, step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man. (John Greenleaf Whittier)

Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight, Through present wrong the eternal right; And, step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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