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“Life is real! life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.”
Provenance
- Source:
- A Psalm of Life.
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 16f1a01a9dab23420182a2c39b97d71eb33712e5ec75aff00a7927a8c7acb2cf
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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