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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

James Russell Lowell

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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Choice
Darkness
Goes
Choices
Forever
Light
Twixt
Blight

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