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“Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f9a9af40229940e7761e00717bb2ae4692c4bc9539d76520dfed5c89b09a2073
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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