"Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow’d long; Even wonder’d at, because he dropt no sooner. Fate seem’d to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more: Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still."
John Dryden

January 1, 1970

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