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True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.
True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.
Approximate author period: c. 1601 AD · renaissance
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- John Donne
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- Approximate author period: c. 1601 AD · renaissance
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