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There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

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Archibald MacLeish
Age: 89 †
Born: 1892
Born: May 7
Died: 1982
Died: April 20
Lawyer
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Glencoe
Illinois
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