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Wrought golden plenty where once reigned a dearth,
The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses J. C. Manning
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By slow degrees, like rain-fraught breeze rising in time of dearth,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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There's a murmur from the millions, in their misery and dearth,
The End Is Near 1930
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Or lowly peasants struggling long with poverty and dearth,
Echoes from the Sabine Farm Roswell Martin Field 1885
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The banded mists through Cloudland's vaporous dearth,
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These perfumes softening the harsh soul of dearth,
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Who drew me forth from the wastes, and the bitter kinless dearth,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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How hard to think, through cold and dark and dearth,
A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul George MacDonald 1864
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You march'd long months; and, sore reduced by dearth,
The Columbiad Joel Barlow 1783
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: Ant. Thus do they, Sir: they take the flow o 'th' Nile By certain fcale i 'th' pyramid; they know By th 'height, the lownefs, or the mean, if dearth,
Works 1795
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