• Because the gift of Song was chiefly lent, To give consoling music for the joys We lack, and not for those which we possess.

  Bayard Taylor
  American poet, travel author, and diplomat 1825-1878
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1. consoling
2. chiefly
3. possess
4. those
5. which

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Because the gift of Song was chiefly lent, To give consoling music for the joys We lack, and not for those which we possess. by : Bayard Taylor

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