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“'T is strange that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King John. Act v. Sc. 7.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fedbeef4f936b0f8a7b93db6fbb70ce23c7d4b8abee035d6ecd02fc6fe3d2f31
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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