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“Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Burial of Sir John Moore.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c6c3fe3f23614867636fb3f57492f918e3a5aa7a10f2e0c6984d5c33cf9a49e6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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