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Final Ruin fiercely drives
Her plowshare o'er creation.


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Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;
And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;
Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.


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A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.


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O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

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By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
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Edward Young

Edward Young
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Born: 1683
Died: April 5, 1765 (aged 82)
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