“"And shall I die? and unrevenged?" she said:
"Yes! let me die! thus—thus I plunge in night."”
Charles Symmons (1749–1826) Welsh poet
Book IV, lines 887–888
The Æneis (1817)
“Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.”
"Ode on Solitude", st. 5 (c. 1700).
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