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“Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I 'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.”
Provenance
- Source:
- At the "Mermaid." Stanza 10.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 959c618fd082462f1d3a8ba4c998923ea2d0ea51f530c37a174ff9e7081f8020
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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