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“And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return.”
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- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b843b164d6824ed1e82e2034795c33065aa2d60dcfa789df139f6f7ce913b8c3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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