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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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