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And the nightingale thought, “I have sung many songs, But never a one so gay, For he sings of what the world will be When the years have died away.”
And the nightingale thought, “I have sung many songs, But never a one so gay, For he sings of what the world will be When the years have died away.”
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Alfred Tennyson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 136 · printed citation: Tennyson (The Poet’s Song). · compiler notes excluded
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