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“But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Lycidas. Line 130.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4c6b416cb42653c0edce1dbdf489a7f4cb00827ea483fffe723afdba184b41ab
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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