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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
May
Stand
Shattered
Come
Grows
Fragments
Heart
Lasts
Passings
Last
Melody
Song
Passing
Unshaken
Fall
Begin
Finer
Strong
Grow
Fathom
Tell
Leave
Comrade

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