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“Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hymns in Prose. xiii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3d02cbda7d7a81ad4bcbec90d7d9e535206028486a4e08847a979b2641f9e8d7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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