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“The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?”
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- Source:
- Cologne.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 919fcc0d5991c1697f084995c231c66aaabbf7d1ecd0c05a7d5b86504f833868
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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