GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1817
“Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heyday of his eyes.”
(the beginning of the poem “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas, 1914-1953)
ANOTHER OLD DEAD WHITE MAN
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