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“Tell me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream!" For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.”
Provenance
- Source:
- A Psalm of Life.
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b3ad4110aea097b12044d42e1075df553467bf357b691875e126cf0ad69df6ba
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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