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The parents of the learned child (His father and his mother) Were utterly aghast to note The facts he would at random quote On creatures curious, rare, and wild;
And wondering, ask each other: "An idle little child like this,
How is...

Why is this age worse than earlier ages
In a stupor of grief and dreadhave we not fingered the foulest woundsand left them unhealed by our hands
In the west the falling light still glows,and the clustered housetops glitter in the sun,but...