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“Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.”
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- Source:
- Ode to Lycoris.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7f887fcc74f8bc48b0ab8c111cb633af604cf75ffae45fb73933fbd34fbb08d9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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