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Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 22
Died: 1935
Died: April 6
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I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.
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Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.
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And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.
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Do you hear the children singing?
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seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.
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Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.
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Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.
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