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"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he g..." — Robert Louis Stevenson

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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;

Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore

Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn

Disturbs the eternal sleep,

But in the stillness far withdrawn

Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

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