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“Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Rubáiyát. Stanza lxvii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9cdd596ce455972c2d0dffc658129f1b6cf4d1c0e126b6f1931dbeb91b29f797
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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