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Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Writer
Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
Come
Bark
Hard
Yards
Even
Milk
Make
Dogs
Like
Dog
Mongrels
Wise
Milkman
Dark
Arrives
Truth
Yard

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