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There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy. — Thomas Hood

There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy.

Thomas Hood
Ode to Melancholy · 1827
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Yin and yangMelancholy
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1827
Person
Thomas Hood
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Current citation
Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Melancholy." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.
Original citation
Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Melancholy." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

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