Whoever, when he dies, leaves on paper a beautiful line of poetry has left the heavens richer and the earth too.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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