Alone!--that Worn-out Word, So Idly Spoken, And So Coldly Heard

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Alone!--that worn-out word,
So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;
Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known
Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!
-- Edward Bulwer Lytton (1805-1873)
-- The New Timon, (1846), Part ii

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