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“Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?”
Provenance
- Source:
- Sonnet lxv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 44d7f8a70a646d202b7bb9aeee3555523e5e3b4e104bc1dcdc547a0bb6735ea8
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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