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All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

William Johnson Cory

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William Johnson Cory
Age: 69 †
Born: 1823
Born: January 9
Died: 1892
Died: June 11
Poet
Writer
Great Torrington
Devon
William Johnson
Reason
Live
Beauteous
Things
Clasp
Time
Decay
Laws
Law
Dies
Space

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