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“Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all the breathers of this world are dead; You still shall live--such virtue hath my pen-- Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.”
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- Source:
- Sonnet lxxxi.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 779df20be9928a3eff14fc1b125a788d7c16197d48ebfc5c4a7759e5a06b2aca
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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