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Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“To sigh, yet feel no pain;
To weep, yet scarce know why;
To sport an hour with Beauty's chain,
Then throw it idly by.”
The Blue Stocking.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Then throw it idly by." by Thomas Moore?
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