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benison
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1913 1921
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1841
,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
, "
God's-Acre
" from
Ballads and Other Poems
:
It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a
benison
o'er the sleeping dust.
1898
,
Arthur Conan Doyle
, "
A Forgotten Tale
" from
Songs of Action
:
'Hush! but we are Spanish too; More I may not say to you: May God's
benison
, like dew, Gently settle o'er them.'
1913
,
Paul Laurence Dunbar
, "
To Her
" from
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
:
Your presence like a
benison
to me / wakes my sick soul to dreamful ecstasy, I fancy that some old Arabian night / Saw you my houri and my heart's delight.
1921
,
Henry Clarence Pitz
, "
The Shining Adventure
" from
St. Nicholas
, Volume 48, Issue 1:
Day by day we scudded south, Under a torrid sun; At night the stars, in our teak-wood spars, Twinkled a
benison
.
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