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“Alas! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gain; The heart can ne'er a transport know That never feels a pain.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Song.
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c9c880f2c673a5630e32fc44c4880128a37c99e33b8b5ee6f8b298eafd93b419
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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