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“Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Fire-Worshippers.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 670c8fde39e57169b30aade26418d5c4d1cf00d52730d8e3b5d847c76f171fce
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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