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“Oh the heart is a free and a fetterless thing,-- A wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing!”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Captive Greek Girl.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0afbf30732fee1e9664b507227d0a452b41a965ed97aacf7e49c93faed77d5f8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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