Potential Titles: Defer

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Deferred the hour ordained - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

Sick with hope deferred - Ivor Gurney "'Hark, Hark, the Lark'"

Rumble of a dream deferred - Langston Hughes "Dream Boogie"

Your hearts grew sick with hope deferred - Kate "An Old 'Chubb'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.109-v.III, 30 Jan. 1886]

In oblivion deferred - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

The glimmer of hope deferred - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"

All the centuries of hope deferred - E. Nesbit "Mummy Wheat"

Eyes that fail after a spring deferred - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"


In deference to the dew - Susan Coolidge "Menace"

Banked their fires in deference to the sun - Linda Gregerson "Chronic"


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