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Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
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He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
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