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“Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings; Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.”
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- Source:
- Contemplation.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e3172755a8187c26b195f3021b9cb22ab237b27e4c615feb1a7ef1a744c9b32e
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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