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Three poets in three distant ages born
Greece Italy and England did adorn
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed
The next in majesty in both the last
The force of Nature could no further go
To make a third she joined the other two
Leaves have their time to fall
And flowers to wither at the Northwinds breath
And stars to set but all
Thous hast all seasons for thine own O Death
An honest man's the noblest work of God." Pope
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The first section is John Dryden's "Epigram on Milton" (1688)
Second section is Felicia Dorothea Heman's "The hour of death" (1823)
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