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“As when, O lady mine! With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould. The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.”
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- Source:
- Sonnet.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 34ad1b3c9a6498f27dcc759df22e1b827d2475074e0abec602897937b8e0a007
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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