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Death's Waylaying
not the sharpest
Of the Thefts
of Time -
There marauds
a sorer Robber -
Silence - is his
name -
No Assault,
nor any menace
Doth betoken
him.
But from
Life's consum -
mate
Cluster,
He supplants
the Balm.
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