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This were the writing skills of a random dude who was stuck in an asylum. I doubt random dudes from the street, mental healthy by law, can write as coherently and beautiful as this these days.
>"Most Beautiful Will Ever Made"

Not sure about "most" part but beautiful it absolutely is.

This reads so much like an urban legend, that I had to poke around a bit. It appears that it was a piece of fiction written by a Williston Fisk for Harper's Weekly in 1898, and has been given various backstories as time went on.
here's a poem by ryokan expressing a similar sentiment

My legacy—What will it be?

Flowers in spring,

The cuckoo in summer,

And the crimson maples

Of autumn...

My favorite Iranian poet, via an Irishman…

  XCIX
  Ah, Love! could you and I with Him conspire
  To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
  Would not we shatter it to bits--and then
  Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
https://classics.mit.edu/Khayyam/rubaiyat.html
I found the piece quite lovely. Proof that clickbait titles existed long before the Internet.