Quote#Death
O blessed letters that combine in one
Quote bySamuel Daniel · 1562–1619
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Musophilus (1599), lines 181-186.
English (original)
O blessed letters that combine in one All ages past, and make one live with all, By you we do confer with who are gone, And the dead living unto counsel call: By you th'unborn shall have communion Of what we feel, and what doth us befall.
— Samuel Daniel
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