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From Euripides.
Then suffer ye, the Dead, in Earth to haveThe last Possession of the quiet Grave;
For thither all Things, in their End, return,
From whence they were originally born:
The Spirit seeks the Skies; the Body must
Corrupt, and mingle with its Native Dust.
The brittle Tenement is not our own,
But lent awhile; and, when the Lease is run,
The foodful Mother claims the trusted Loan.
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