"The humble rosemary Whose sweets so thanklessly are shed To scent the desert and the dead."
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Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), "Light of the Harem", reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 682.
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