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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Friendship craves
The commerce of the mind, not the exchange
Of emulous feasts that foster sycophants.

Let Will but set its appetite on war,
And Reason will promptly invent offence,
And furnish blood with arguments.

He was an Englishman of Englishmen, of the old school of charming manners, flavoured by occasional downrightness of speech.

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

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