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Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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Arthur Hugh Clough
Age: 42 †
Born: 1819
Born: January 1
Died: 1861
Died: November 13
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City of Liverpool
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Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.
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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity it is service.
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There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.
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