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“Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Season.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d6f445e57596c8b3504285fe5d34d2f4fde64da248eead56796fbd3d9f9a97e9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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