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PREFACE.
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lives the longest, has but the small Privilege of creeping more leisurely than others to his Grave; what we call Living, is in reality but a longer Time of Dying: And if these Verses prove as short-liv'd as their Author, it is a Loss not worth regretting: They only die, as they were born, in Obscurity.

Endpiece from 'Poems on Several Occasions' by William Broome (1739, 2nd edition)
Endpiece from 'Poems on Several Occasions' by William Broome (1739, 2nd edition)

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