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Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in.

Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in.

Approximate author period: c. 1852 AD · industrial

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Francis W. Bourdillon
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Approximate author period: c. 1852 AD · industrial
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806-1884): Sparkling and Bright.

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