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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Pain
Chain
Feel
Chains
Feels
Sport
Throw
Hour
Idly
Sports
Scarce
Beauty
Weep
Hours
Sigh

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