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“So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.”
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- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 797c2af02c6daccb766f6e99d1576064b1c8fd2bb35a307c42c59fad55b4fafb
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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