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But I am here,
And they are far, and time is old.
Within my dream the grass is cold;
The legs and locked; the sky is dead.
- Mark Van Doren
Attribution: Mark Van Doren (1894–1973), U.S. poet. The Distant Runners (l. 33–36). . . Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.

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