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LINES by GEORGE CRABBE

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First Line: THUS ONCE AGAIN, MY NATIVE PLACE I COME
Last Line: BUT MAN HIMSELF MOVES ONWARD TO THE GRAVE.

THUS once again, my native place, I come
Thee to salute -- my earliest, latest home:
Much are we alter'd both, but I behold
In thee a youth renew'd -- whilst I am old.
The works of man from dying we may save,
But man himself moves onward to the grave.



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