"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
"The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man."
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Source: Mark Akenside, Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James M'Henry (1841). “The Poems of the pleasures: consisting of The pleasures of imagination, by Mark Akenside; The pleasures of memory, by Samuel Rogers; The pleasures of hope, by Thomas Campbell; The pleasures of friendship, by James M'Henry”, p.207
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