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“A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold, The hairs on his brow were silver-white, And his blood was thin and old.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Devil's Progress.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3234ed53203fc60418fa68653061765c34bfe929661d21c14bffc4d2bcfd01b3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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