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"text": "But, oh! what pangs torment the deſtin’d heart, / That feels the wound, yet dare not ſhow the dart; / What eaſe could Ovid to his ſorrows give, / Who muſt not ſpeak, and therefore cannot live?",
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"ref": "1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 18",
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