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“They died, as if o'ercome by sleep.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Works and Days. Line 116.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b55b360d57a15d4679857e64a99cc9a7d161742c1bdfb17ceabe3ba6fec02a14
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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