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“I 'd be a butterfly born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.”
Provenance
- Source:
- I 'd be a Butterfly.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0b98cb6748ddd84cfaf0b6ff9f7aae5158c51a28aaa22197231446fb510e2166
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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