Time & Brevity
Sixty-Eighth Birthday
From Heartsease and Rue
Time & Brevity
As life runs on, the road grows strange
With faces new, and near the end
The milestones into headstones change,
'Neath every one a friend.
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MLA
Lowell, James Russell. “Sixty-Eighth Birthday.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell/337/.
Chicago
Lowell, James Russell. “Sixty-Eighth Birthday.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell/337/.
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