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“He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled,-- The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Giaour. Line 68.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fd4c6cd3407243713c26dd3f4d4f03f8813d4b33f91d717da8394662bb0ab123
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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