When youth was lord of my unchallenged fate, And time seemed but the vassal of my will, I entertained certain guests of state- The great of older days. (Silas Weir Mitchell)

When youth was lord of my unchallenged fate, And time seemed but the vassal of my will, I entertained certain guests of state- The great of older days.

Silas Weir Mitchell

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