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“Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Traveller. Line 251.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 98adc0c2dd47cddaae6c1d587ae401188343ddb5af7396254448ea595545f17f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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