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“Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song.”
Provenance
- Source:
- A Farewell.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3fde41cbb1875c80f28c2aa1dc77e12b8e3bfb9ae0a2e037b5f312348a25f3e8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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