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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.

Emily Bronte

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Emily Bronte
Age: 30 †
Born: 1818
Born: July 30
Died: 1848
Died: December 19
Novelist
Poet
Thornton
West Yorkshire
Ellis Bell
Emily Jane Brontë
Aimili Bolangte
Emili Bronte
Emily Jane Bronte
Ai-mi-li Po-lang-tʻe
Ėmilii︠a︡ Bronte
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Cannot
Forgiving
Bearing
Love
Thee
Tide
World
Youth
Tides
Sweet
Obscure
Along
Maturity
Sterner
Wrong
Hopes
Beset
Forget
Forgive
Darker
Desire
Desires
Forgetfulness

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