“All day I've built
a lifetime and now
the sun sinks to
undo it.”
Source: The Complete Poems
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poet from the United States 1928–1974Related quotes
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" The Going http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Thomas_Hardy/2716" (1912), lines 38-42, from Satires of Circumstance (1914)