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“When flowing cups pass swiftly round With no allaying Thames.”
Provenance
- Source:
- To Althea from Prison, ii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ea19808789b5e85444d7e165a4267f30646f14a536908af87bc1fe0018901ed5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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