| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8131 |
| QUOTATION: | The welcome house of him my dearest guest.
Where ever, ever stay, and go not thence,
Till natures sad decree shall call thee hence;
Flesh of thy flesh, bone of thy bone,
I here, thou there, yet both but one. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672), Anglo-American poet. A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment (l. 22–26). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
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