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“I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Lycidas. Line 3.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 34c2d67b409b279095561ce2818832a6df46759dbe8f6f393d0c631ebf0babdb
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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