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“Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.”
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- Source:
- Fly not yet.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c8d7578f310b52ec3c7f8c540d3b97387b664644d189d7e5371e92535a82d582
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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