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Though youth be past, and beauty fled, The constant heart its pledge redeems, Like box, that guards the flowerless bed And brighter from the contrast seems.
Sarah Josepha Hale
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Sarah Josepha Hale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1788
Born: October 24
Died: 1879
Died: April 30
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