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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.
Approximate author period: c. 1576 AD · renaissance
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- Edmund Spenser
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- Approximate author period: c. 1576 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1553–1599)
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