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“'T is a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Ion. Act i. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 779fa2ccf75c6bf1c0c9d317b5e582637f0588f619e912c1570773d3ff2554f2
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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