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“Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.”
Provenance
- Source:
- In Memoriam. xlviii. Stanza 4.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 606643d6bc4b7090458f87e80b1549da49a2bd2d9630f8942bbc7ff2a877769f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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