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“Where music dwells Lingering and wandering on as loth to die, Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f93e89556a34ca54445f1c00ba0c23c289c889d1eccb4aa0963998db14079fa1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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