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“The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Midnight Mass.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1305d4ed17abea1d410cecd38ce6589b3e3f791510e9eba97418caaaa1309319
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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