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My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
Critic
Journalist
Librarian
Music Critic
Music Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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Aging
Like
Fallen
Clouds
Distance
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Middle
Inhabited
Age
Floats
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