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“Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamatreya.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7a224fa1b3c56e43844ad38f97c08286147e5b9dc325d40a8519cc2f41510fc1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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