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“And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.”
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- Source:
- The Excursion. Book vii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b8af174ec6e49f5bc2ea6636e11395a7a982b5b034d71c2ba8bd4fad8caf40dd
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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