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“Hope withering fled, and Mercy sighed farewell!”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Corsair. Canto i. Stanza 9.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cca6d82e48e42e5deff7a71baa88bc78c21cf0496cadfbe2fe7e1edca6f21f8d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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