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“Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Il Penseroso. Line 61.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1e99a536a5f4e4a1f8b48aa0970a6cbbf90d16f6434538fa9e96b25cdb680fe0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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