“They are all gone into the world of light!
And I alone sit lingering here;
Their very memory is fair and bright,
And my sad thoughts doth clear.”

—  Henry Vaughan

"They Are All Gone," st. 1.
Silex Scintillans (1655)

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Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet 1621–1695

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