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“Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there; Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- bb0511483a2720623e0343f23b5d1a197b60c1424ebcccde129dfe3b21cdbd47
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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