Not all die early, dying young-
Maturity of Fate
Is consummated equally
In Ages, or a Night-
A Hoary Boy, I’ve known to drop
Whole statured-by the side
Of Junior of Fourscore-’twas Act
Not Period-that died.
(Emily Dickinson)
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