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Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old.


Anthony Berkeley (A.B. Cox) (used pseudonym Francis Iles)

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JEAN DE SCHELANDRE (USED PSEUDONYM DANIEL D'ANCHERES) With faces like dead lovers who died true.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) O how grandly cometh Even, Sitting on the mountain summit, Purple-vestured, grave, and silent,...
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