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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. Auden
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W. H. Auden
Age: 66 †
Born: 1907
Born: February 21
Died: 1973
Died: September 28
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We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock
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