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William Ernest Henley (1849 – 1903)


English poet, critic and editor.
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William Ernest Henley
Dear, was it really you and I?
In truth the riddle's ill to read,
So many are the deaths we die
Before we can be dead indeed.
Henley quotes
Who says that we shall pass, or the fame of us fade and die,
While the living stars fulfil their round in the living sky?
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