"How blessings brighten as they take their flight."
"The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety."
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Source: John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.201
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