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“In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.” quote by Elinor Wylie — Download Open image

“In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.”

Elinor Wylie

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I bear a little more than I can bear.

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When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well.

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I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and…

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Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes…

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I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

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If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground.

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