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“A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.”
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- Source:
- Grongar Hill. Line 88.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1037dd50cdefdc7122aee629c6112aa32b50182230e0c585f06b778e1c6ec014
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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