Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides Into the silent hollow of the past; What is there that abides To make the next age better for the last? (James Russell Lowell)

Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides Into the silent hollow of the past; What is there that abides To make the next age better for the last?

James Russell Lowell

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