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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."
Samuel Garth / The Dispensary. Canto iii. Line 225.
The Dispensary. Canto iii. Line 225.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain