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From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.
From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.
Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- William Cowper
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- Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 188.
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