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“We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.”
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- Source:
- Stanzas.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2ad1957ae191739b07b136021f966d66a29aa142e52e741f7e8513e2e566ee9b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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