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“Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings, Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- e7c7c714d3a712086a991263d56787a47575d754fea5491a92947d1da2752571
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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