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OUT OF AN OLD BOOK by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON

First Line: I OPENED, READ: LO, LIKE A SUN
Last Line: BEAUTY IS DATELESS, LIFE IS ONE.
Subject(s): BOOKS; LIFE; READING;

I OPENED, read: lo, like a sun
Out of that dusty ancientry
A dead man's word illumined me --
Beauty is dateless, Life is one.



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