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“Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Death-Bed.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9d0265804a6d864e10648260be0778a516e793d4f2fdeb98dfceea81dcc86908
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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