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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WE ARE BORN EVERY DAY, by PALLADAS Poet's Biography
First Line: From day to day we are born, as each night wanes
Last Line: Of years gone by you keep no heritage.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades
Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence
First Line: From day to day we are born, as each night wanes
Last Line: Of years gone by you keep no heritage.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades
Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence
FROM day to day we are born, as each night wanes,
And nothing of our former life remains.
The alien course of yesterday is run;
What life we have this morning is begun.
Say not, old man, that you are rich in age:
Of years gone by you keep no heritage.
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