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“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Princess. Part iv. Line 21.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 108661c8f79ea5045f3c294c9041e6bfac5f8a4f208f418d68d909099c4a85ea
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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