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Parting day dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues with a new color as it gasps away, the last still loveliest, till 'tis gone, and all is gray.
Parting day dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues with a new color as it gasps away, the last still loveliest, till 'tis gone, and all is gray.
Approximate author period: c. 1806 AD · industrial
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- Lord Byron
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- Approximate author period: c. 1806 AD · industrial
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 266 · printed citation: Byron · subject: Twilight
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