“For death and life, in ceaseless strife,
Beat wild on this world’s shore,
And all our calm is in that balm—
Not lost but gone before.”

— Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

Not lost but gone before (c. 1863).

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English feminist, social reformer, and author 1808–1877

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