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“We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
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- Source:
- To a Skylark. Line 86.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- eced66a1f02965317eb999a4dcc91b022f433e1939e5ab99ddd582dbdff11fec
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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