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“O God! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Prisoner of Chillon. Stanza 8.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 06225493af4041662dcb70dd94da8f9ebf70d2d25c49fd0d88ef074992e57231
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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