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A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying

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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
Pieces
Nameless
Lying
Bud
Sense
Scarce
Cradle
Crushed
Babyhood
Piece
Coffin
Flow
Extinct
Dying
Coffins

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