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A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Approximate author period: c. 1729 AD · early modern
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- John Dyer
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- Approximate author period: c. 1729 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Grongar Hill. Line 88.
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