Quote#Death
That was indeed to live—
Quote byThomas Bailey Aldrich · 1836–1907
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "An Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw Memorial on Boston Common. May Thirty-First, 1897", The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Vol. II (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897), p. 207.
English (original)
That was indeed to live— At one bold swoop to wrest From darkling death the best That Death to Life can give!
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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