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On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat’st while all around thee smiled: So live, that sinking to thy life’s last sleep Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat’st while all around thee smiled: So live, that sinking to thy life’s last sleep Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Approximate author period: c. 1770 AD · early modern
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- Sir William Jones
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- Approximate author period: c. 1770 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1746–1794)
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 268 · printed citation: Sir William Jones (1746-1794) (From the Persian). · compiler notes excluded
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