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To die is landing on some silent shore
Where billows never break, nor tempests roar;
Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, ’t is o’er.
--
The Dispensary, Canto iii. Line 225, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 

Samuel Garth

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