Word: buts
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Could but tell the joy, yet sadness,
But when he comes, with beating drums,
In this our loss is double, for not only do we lose ground in our knowledge of the language, but we lose, also, the pleasure of social converse in the tongue pre-eminently fitted to convey the niceties of conversation.
Could but paint the dreamy darkness
Could but tell the gentle rapture