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Love

Till love appear, we live in anxious doubt

Author: Edmund Waller, 1605-1687
Published in 1 hymnal


Author: Edmund Waller, 1605-1687

Waller, Edmund, poet and politician, born 1605, educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, and died in 1687. From his Poetical Works, 1730 (ed. by Fenton), his sweet lyric in Thring's Collection, 1882, and others, "The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er" (Old Age) is taken. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)  Go to person page >

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First Line: Till love appear, we live in anxious doubt
Title: Love
Author: Edmund Waller, 1605-1687
Copyright: Public Domain

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