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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.

Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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London
England
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World
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Bright

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