While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. (Oliver Goldsmith)

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

Oliver Goldsmith

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