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“I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I 'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.”
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- Source:
- I remember, I remember.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c8b338129bc86b997252d39549b694193f9e0f5663e83c9fb33e937fe84dc005
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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