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“O gracious God! how far have we Profan'd thy heavenly gift of poesy!”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 586dd459f53740dbccb22196b543292016922da59c7371d08ea62558cd83820b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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