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I love, not just those I knew back then, But those Who were young Back then, But who've since Come to grief, who, Having soared so high, Found the Consequent descent Too dreadful to bear, With my youth itself, Which was only Yesterday, No, even less time, A mere moment ago, How could Such a short space Of time Cause such devastation?
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Sep 1, 2015
Sep 1, 2015 at 5:57 AM UTC
Such a Short Space of Time
I love, not just those I knew back then, But those Who were young Back then, But who've since Come to grief, who, Having soared so high, Found the Consequent descent Too dreadful to bear, With my youth itself, Which was only Yesterday, No, even less time, A mere moment ago, How could Such a short space Of time Cause such devastation?
Such a Short Space of Time was based on a few pages of some kind of story or kindred piece of writing I briefly worked on sometime in the 1990s, perhaps 1995, or later, I can’t be sure.
carl-halling
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Sep 1, 2015
Sep 1, 2015 at 5:57 AM UTC
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