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If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

James Russell Lowell
Beautiful, Alive, Tradition
James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.310

Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.

James Russell Lowell
Light, Tradition, Crime
James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

James Russell Lowell
Tradition, Eternal Life, Originals
James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.146

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