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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WRITING, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poet's Biography
First Line: A man who keeps a diary, pays
Last Line: Of fulness than of emptiness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Diaries
First Line: A man who keeps a diary, pays
Last Line: Of fulness than of emptiness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Diaries
A man who keeps a diary, pays
Due toll to many tedious days;
But life becomes eventful -- then
His busy hand forgets the pen.
Most books, indeed, are records less
Of fulness than of emptiness.
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