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fain Adverb Old-fashioned gladly or willingly [Old English fægen]
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The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that's kind to our mortalities. I would fain linger yet with a few of those among whom I have so long moved, and share their happiness by endeavouring to depict it. I fain would take the zither, By some stray fancy led; But there are none to hear me, And who can charm the dead? |
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