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“Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long!”
Provenance
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 124990a50cc6a9a0fbeb0317d26507867ae8818216dced9508081943e62f7269
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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