For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
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Original Citation
Wittier, John Greenleaf. "Maud Muller." The Panorama and Other Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856, st. 53.
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Current Citation
Wittier, John Greenleaf. "Maud Muller." John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems. Library of America, 2004.
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