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“But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard; Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a Sabbath appear'd.”
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- Type:
- quote
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 5dcc8d7e5aa2c0fc8675b2559f4688734395041696cbf06397777d57bd134bbd
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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