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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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This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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We are nothing less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
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Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?
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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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