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“Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past; At once the fountain, stream, and sea, They were, they are, they yet shall be.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Little Cloud.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ff3dc39191fb1d9a4fb51514a42e1099bdb54550cf3b5dd37862f953202d4b15
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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