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Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.

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Delmore Schwartz
Age: 52 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 8
Died: 1966
Died: July 11
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