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“As full-blown poppies, overcharg'd with rain, Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain,-- So sinks the youth; his beauteous head, deprest Beneath his helmet, drops upon his breast.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 9eccbdaccf1ac7973816500c34053d55a676168c5898c5cf439f9bd3bbe6a4d0
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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