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“I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Amber Bead.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8a89f551beb88cfef4dccf90ddbea0ebbe2e33ed2b14a1276c501e0f5364087f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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