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“The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,-- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Deserted Village. Line 227.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2095a1af6145dbb03b73bd55e8e9e57a6c8344f362acee6b6ec163a56cdd2a79
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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