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“I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing.”
Provenance
- Source:
- In Memoriam. xxi. Stanza 6.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a9a8436b7bcabb74e030b2aa321dd9da45a5a400c9fdc1a6fa7c6fba8e045252
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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