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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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Poet
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London
England
Shore
Unknown
Silent
Silence
Gone

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