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“Gashed with honourable scars, Low in Glory's lap they lie; Though they fell, they fell like stars, Streaming splendour through the sky.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Battle of Alexandria.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 756a2e27018a0d24cdb5e5afc154feeae64b121a54d6e63a80771a30108e328d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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