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“That 's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture.”
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- Source:
- Home-Thoughts from Abroad. ii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4943dfda8365a6603c6fa5da4fd2e799f6851c864f42537838551d3bb886c9c2
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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