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“Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Seasons. Spring. Line 1149.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 59ed29ddcc364625c92d9edfcbba6dadb7fcfa1b112bded85797d6da0a633ecc
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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