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What I have left is from my native spring I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

John Dryden

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John Dryden
Age: 68 †
Born: 1631
Born: August 7
Died: 1700
Died: May 12
Hymnwriter
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Northamptonshire
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Left
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Heart
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