“Man, who is the noblest part of the earth, melts so away as if he were a statue, not of earth, but of snow.”

— John Donne

II. Actio Læsa; The strength, and the functions of the senses, and other faculties change and fail.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

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English poet 1572–1631

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