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Every day travels toward death the last only arrives at it.

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Arrives
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Toward
Lasts
Last
Death
Every
Time

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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
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We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.
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I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
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Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
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Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
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Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.
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