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“Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them in the dust,-- Trod under foot, the sport of every wind, Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind. There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie, And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye.”
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- Source:
- Boulter's Monument.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6a718871dcb2c695f2f66489ce56fb986cb21bd3f5d82776d96691751e8ea098
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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