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It is night,
And it is vanity, and age
Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear,
The yellow chirper, beaks its cage. - Robert Lowell
Attribution: Robert Lowell (1917–1977), U.S. poet. In the Cage (l. 11–14). . . New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.

Categories: Fear, Night, Vanity

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