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Sound sleep by night; study and ease,
Together mix'd; sweet recreation,
And innocence which most doth please,
With meditation.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented, let me die.
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.20


Pope, in his 12th year.

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