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“Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.”
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- quote
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- d82a6b73da92459e41143a99217765ae99955f3e40a5c617d124ae88ed1d2d37
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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