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For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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Poet
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London
England
Absent
Present
Lord
Speak
Body
Sometimes

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