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“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on,-- Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Ode on a Grecian Urn.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 11cebada943638dc10801de684b02f8b5b669a3ad0674af6636d9bfedc82af5c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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