Thursday, April 9, 2020

Doffing the Robe of Winter


grown men, weary with cares; 
old men, burthened with winters; --
they had mused, and slumbered, and departed
to a yet profounder sleep.

--  Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables (1851)
Posted by David Justice at 1:10 PM
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