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“And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Ode to Melancholy.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ad057165d3da9ec2fbbb40c184f632338dee5dfac0a76c3c791133a9a8cb8ff0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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