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Youth to Age


Aged one and wise,
Were you twenty-two again
Would you risk all for fame?
Conform?
Or go your way alone?


But how can you reply, being seventy-two?
Your path is fogged with memories
As mine with fears.

Written by Pauli Murray (1910-1985)

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