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4For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
4For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 15 · quotation 3 · Longfellow · Morituri Salutamus. L. 281.
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