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“It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 108037bdf3f1f18340bba11a0ca5f1d958c88238679c927f25411e841f35df69
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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