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While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch.
While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch.
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- Coleridge (identity unresolved)
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 314 · quotation 26 · Coleridge · The Nightingale
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