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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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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
Watches
Watch
Heaven
Eye
Around
Forgot
Earth
Wound
Wounds
Tongue

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