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I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.

John Masefield

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John Masefield
Age: 88 †
Born: 1878
Born: June 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 12
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
County of Herefordshire
John Edward Masefield
Mother
Disguise
Another
Flesh
Earth
Birth
Persons
Return
Arrayed
Soul
Gives
Reincarnation
Person
Hold
Returns
Giving
Brain
Brighter
Dies
Limbs

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