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“Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eyes by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.”
Provenance
- Source:
- L'Allegro. Line 129.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e72685dfc1f8dc886adcf0e64cbe6ac6bbc3c89661d9e6d19819e942d1ed8342
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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