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“Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e768719e2de3f34549af4287b07c436b5644fb420931685d634cb29525c38083
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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