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“The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.”
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- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 45b21f107aed9ba85cedfbaf9588f8a96faf870de4a726356d5110b7c980b960
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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