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“Terrible he rode alone, With his Yemen sword for aid; Ornament it carried none But the notches on the blade.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c21da0231069936fb0cf33cef08547322a23e5e43a8799ce75a0296fe413ac98
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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