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“Without the meed of some melodious tear.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Lycidas. Line 14.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 25733d9da2deb580291f9e811113e9836c62b36aa222ecb065b9dadde5d37667
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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