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“A flower, when offered in the bud, Is no vain sacrifice.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Divine Songs. Song xii.
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3069c8f44b987f64dd8d6083f35977ae97f46a001b748337c669a8248cb2df18
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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