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“Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.”
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- Source:
- Christabel. Part ii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4547327696ea0acd1d039cc7db09bcc148fd02a971a218bcd995a333af911a4e
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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