Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I. ✨…

John Dryden
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I. ✨ John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). The Poems of John Dryden
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I. ✨ John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). The Poems of John Dryden

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