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Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Age: 72 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 5
Died: 1909
Died: April 10
Literary Critic
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London
England
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Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.
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Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?
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There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
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A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]
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