Omit death's certain sharpness, life would lack The salt th… - Alfred Austin

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Omit death's certain sharpness, life would lack
The salt that lends it savour.

Alfred Austin

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Alfred Austin DL (30 May 1835 – 2 June 1913) was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896.

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Imagination should
A reconciler, not a rebel, be,
To teach the heart of man to apprehend
Nature's vicissitudes, and bear his own,
With sympathetic fancy.

[T]he charm of a half-neglected old garden arises from its having, once upon a time, not been neglected.

O'er the wires the electric message came,
"He is no better; he is much the same."

Omit death's certain sharpness, life would lack The salt that lends it savour. - Alfred Austin

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