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[saxikath]

Okay, a challenge for all you librarians and other researchy types:

In the play I'm in, my character quotes a line that she claims is from a poem: "And sad affliction bravely borne." Googling this has so far given me only a page that has the text of the original novel the play is based on. Is this really a quote from an existing poem? If so, what poem? I'd love to have context for the quote.

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[amaebi.livejournal.com]

It souds Victorian to me, so I wasn't surprised on searching the KJV to find that it wasn't there.

saxikath, don't you think it could be the Bronte poem, mangled a bit by Bunny?

[saxikath]

It's certainly possible. She muddles everything else. :)