Is privileged beyond the common walk
Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
—Edward Young.
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Life-embarked, out at sea, 'mid the wave-tumbling roar,
The poor ship of my body went down to the floor;
But I broke, at the bottom of death, through a door,
And, from sinking, began for ever to soar.
—From the Persian.
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