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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me all are departed All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

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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
Departed
Familiar
Died
Taken
Gone
Faces
Left

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