“We weep when we are born, not when we die!”

—  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Source: "The Metempsychosis", The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882), p. 139

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American poet, novelist, editor 1836–1907

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