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“There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Reaper and the Flowers.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1f04bb7135159e566575c584d9297a91ffcd629139024681772c7a48bf80cc79
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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