Word Spy - John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier
American poet

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For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
—John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet, Maud Muller, 1854

Posted on March 23, 1999 at 6:05 AM

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