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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
Philip James Bailey
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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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