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“There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,-- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Sonnet. Silence.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9e91511c352146455178da7899a92277c43f1ecc985eb6a46790a4adeb24fae0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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