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“I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.”
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- Source:
- In Memoriam. i. Stanza 1.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 23ae3b14c0c6e3388d3df5f3278445344daecfd62879db9b58d46e701486d157
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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