“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
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“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.”
“Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: Religious Poems, Part 2., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier
Source: Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier