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“"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?”
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- Source:
- Force of Prayer.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 184fdf3be5a797957e8e442ecef391ee27214c73555ce4faa72a98614449088c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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