“Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be here.”
Robert Hunter (1941–2019) American musician
"Box of Rain"
Song lyrics, American Beauty (1970)
“Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?”
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (1955)
Context: Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
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Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?" by Pete Seeger?
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Long time ago!”
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My love goes with you.
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Dutch television interview (March 1, 2007)
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Source: I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography (1985)
“This—all this—was in the olden
Time long ago.”
Edgar Allan Poe The Haunted Palace
"The Haunted Palace" (1839), st. 2.