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“When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Alaric the Visigoth.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bf55bc144c1d5d11ef78169354ed68773a1c88c7f506d14838fa4184fe5c8881
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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