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Angela Burdett-Coutts

by George Meredith

George Meredith

Long with us, now she leaves us; she has rest
Beneath our sacred sod:
A woman vowed to Good, whom all attest,
The daylight gift of God.




Quotes of the Day

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese,local, but prized elsewhere

• W. H. Auden



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