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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.

William Wordsworth
Stars, Sleep, Afterlife
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.