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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Ye come and go incessant we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.
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Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?
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