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“When he is forsaken, Wither'd and shaken, What can an old man do but die?”
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- Source:
- Spring it is cheery.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bd9820f1050892e3d889a15ad941e48aa947b8f561363248642a8721378573f3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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