Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
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In records that defy the tooth of time.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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