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... the girls who came at dawn
To pay a visit to the young child, and how, when he grew up to be a man
The same restive ceremony replaced the limited years between,
Only now he was old, and forced to begin the journey to the sun. - John Ashbery
Attribution: John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. “Plainness in Diversity.”

Categories: Age And Aging, Ceremony, Critic, Death

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