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“Thou art gone to the grave; but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb.”
Provenance
- Source:
- At a Funeral. No. ii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8ef18fd7ba1f1e9d8fd4658d838cc3951ebffeb949135c41212741d329b200fd
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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