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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
Approximate author period: c. 1777 AD · early modern
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- Robert Burns
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- Approximate author period: c. 1777 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
The Vision.
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