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“But oh for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!”
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- Source:
- Break, break, break.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c6c7f5d606c933687f63d47e5470198629f26896e147cb7a1403cec44f01187a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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