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“Such were the notes thy once lov'd poet sung, Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 11539bb20060d5731ff8b2048ede10572c2aa688a38a589cbff9dde5b5ef4aa1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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