“O suffering, sad humanity!
O ye afflicted ones, who lie
Steeped to the lips in misery,
Longing, yet afraid to die,
Patient, though sorely tried!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Goblet of Life, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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American poet 1807–1882

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