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When to the common rest that crowns our days, Called in the noon of life, the good man goes, Or full of years, or ripe in wisdom, lays His silver temples in their last repose; When, o’er the buds of youth, the death-wind blows, And blights the fairest; when our bitterest tears Stream, as the eyes of those that love us close, We think on what they were, with many fears Lest goodness die with them, and leave the coming years.
When to the common rest that crowns our days, Called in the noon of life, the good man goes, Or full of years, or ripe in wisdom, lays His silver temples in their last repose; When, o’er the buds of youth, the death-wind blows, And blights the fairest; when our bitterest tears Stream, as the eyes of those that love us close, We think on what they were, with many fears Lest goodness die with them, and leave the coming years.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- W. C. Bryant (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 258 · printed citation: W. C. Bryant · subject: GOODNESS
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