| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 7986 |
| AUTHOR: | Richard Watson Gilder (18441909) |
| QUOTATION: | Not from the whole wide world I chose thee, Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea! The wide, wide world could not inclose thee, For thou art the whole wide world to me. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Song. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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