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“So his life has flowed From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Ion. Act i. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- dfa50dd66878659ad7b170651dd383aba0021b000bc90cea67ab0dc329d7da8d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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