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Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust.
Andrew Jackson Downing
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Andrew Jackson Downing
Age: 36 †
Born: 1815
Born: October 31
Died: 1852
Died: July 28
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Newburgh
New York
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