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Cheat me not with time,
with the dull ache of flesh,
for all flesh turns,
even the loveliest
ankle and frail thigh,
to bitterest dust.
- Hilda Doolittle
Attribution: Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), U.S. poet. “Calliope.”

Categories: Mortality, Time, Transience

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