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Date: 1633
"Our two soules therefore, which are one, / Though I must goe, endure not yet / A breach, but an expansion, / Like gold to ayery thinnesse beate."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: November 10, 1783
"He gives, what bankrupt Nature never can, / Whose noblest coin is light and brittle man, / Gold, purer far than Ophir ever knew, / A soul, an image of himself, and therefore true."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
