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Beilby Porteus on Memorial Day

1731–1809 United Kingdom

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War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Death: A Poetical Essay (1759)

Teach him how to live,
And, oh still harder lesson! how to die.

Death: A Poetical Essay (1759)

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