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“The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Samson Agonistes. Line 86.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b38d621de4ee34c8b2390e20e919da13ad6ca92d8a5c850b96d3c60003f87824
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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