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“Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 5e0f66d1a3dd15a2ad197dd7a647759167fb8398e38abfd87a51ae060b89b782
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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