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Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)
“Lady Clara Vere de Vere
Was eight years old, she said:
Every ringlet, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden thread.”
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Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)
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Was eight years old, she said:
Every ringlet, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden thread." by Lewis Carroll?
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