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“In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 537cb60564c587d44db119d47757186eb9144f995d06dac476f82137cf613da3
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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