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“The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Comus. Line 631.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 79a1a31f0f18b2efd152defb09bff56f81eb869965d96774e5edc42ffa44e49d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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