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“On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.”
Provenance
- Source:
- From the Persian.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 285e6ac942768860360cd38f2a6c28f86fdfb0303d18a0bcbf5fedafd0b7f149
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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