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“We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Death-Bed.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2245736d0881995a0dfc6de84391b32b799a95185e6a177420a369831b1d6d8a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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