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Ben Bolt

Thomas Dunn English
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“Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?
Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;
Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,
And trembled with fear at your frown!”

Thomas Dunn English Ben Bolt

Ben Bolt, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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