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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!

Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!

Matthew Arnold
Children, Down And, Dear
'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 1

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

Matthew Arnold
Religious, Children, Eye
Matthew Arnold (1877). “Poems by Matthew Arnold: Lyric, dramatic, and elegiac poems”

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Matthew Arnold
Strong, Children, Light
Essays in Criticism First Series, "Heinrich Heine" (1865)

The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.

Matthew Arnold
Children, Nice, Infatuation
Matthew Arnold (1973). “Complete Prose Works: English literature and Irish politics”

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