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“I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d3ca6554448b1902af2596f03c640c0263b1cc152f270958f8d4fe4ea79553c0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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