“Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just!
Shining nowhere but in the dark;
What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust,
Could man outlook that mark!”

—  Henry Vaughan

"They Are All Gone," st. 5.
Silex Scintillans (1655)

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Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet 1621–1695

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