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The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.
Edmund Spenser
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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.
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