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  • When we are old and these rejoicing veins
    Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
    And out of all our burning there remains
    No feeblest spark to fire us, even in dream,
    This be our solace: that it was not said
    When we were young and warm and in our prime,
    Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead,
    Sleeping away the unreturning time.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Selected Poems”