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“Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- a7e7e192f0a18a6805d10abf69663cf95359315418cf8fd21b9255dc05f1fd29
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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