| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 7535 |
| AUTHOR: | Julia A. Fletcher Carney (1824–1908) |
| QUOTATION: | Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
So the little minutes, humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages of eternity. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Little Things, 1845. 1 |
| | Note 1.
This poem has been variously attributed to Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1810–1897); to Daniel Clement Colesworthy (1810–1893), and to Mrs. Frances S. Osgood (1811–1850). [back] |
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