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“May no rude hand deface it, And its forlorn hic jacet!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Ellen Irwin.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a425b712f29f386f2b6ff46cdf2e3e4c62a07e21d2b12c2f94f45334419efc92
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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