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“A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death?”
Provenance
- Source:
- We are Seven.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d7c354c52d99a9526ce4a0cdd94ac13c16e08300e13b8ff0051ba149d5d1d612
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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