"If Love were jester at the court of Death, And Death the king of all, still would I pray "For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!""
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Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Frederic Lawrence Knowles (September 8, 1869 β September 20, 1905) was an American poet.
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