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“Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,-- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.”
Provenance
- Source:
- To the Small Celandine.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c315714ae2fb8936a7f53dabdff63fb6a622b8bb86f72e5b37d3bfcdad5f1da0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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