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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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George William Curtis. (1824–1892) (continued)
 
7522
      Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
          The Call of Freedom.
 
Charles Godfrey Leland. (1824–1903)
 
7523
    Hans Breitmann gife a barty—
  Where ish dat barty now?
          Hans Breitmann’s Party.
7524
      They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train.
          The Masher.
7525
      The brave deserve the lovely—every woman may be won.
          The Masher.
7526
    If all the world must see the world
  As the world the world hath seen,
Then it were better for the world
  That the world had never been.
          The World and the World.
 
George Macdonald. (1824–1905)
 
7527
    Alas! how easily things go wrong!
A sigh too deep or a kiss too long,
And then comes a mist and a weeping rain,
And life is never the same again.
          Phantastes.
7528
    Where did you come from baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into the here.
          Baby. (Song in At the Back of the North Wind).
7529
    Where did you get your eyes so blue?
Out of the skies as I came through.
          Baby. (Song in At the Back of the North Wind).