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A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Grief
Shadow
Close
Comes
Death
Littles
Gather
Little
Shadows
Men
Laughter

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