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“The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.”
Provenance
- Source:
- One Word is too often profaned.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d5140cb4cda96293ede8da0aac967f0e7b9b3b6a7813a9afc2146843ac83ade1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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