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“She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.”
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- Source:
- She was a Phantom of Delight.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 793c718e7f830cd6c300b3f89f19663f72e6c85533f4d2afcf6eb79b03c55c8c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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