And as pale sickness does i... by Edmund Waller, an English Poet

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“And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.”

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Edmund Waller

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Name: Edmund Waller

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: Mar 3, 1606

Date of Death: Oct 21, 1687

Profession: Poet

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A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

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