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“Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.”
Provenance
- Source:
- A Psalm of Life.
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ac4bb20ca16c28124da6c20f445c0b7799ab14c49deb6e83bbe7ae28d5979f56
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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