“Then say–how come the years to seem so swift,
The days, the days so slow?”

— Jan Struther

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British writer 1901–1953

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“Then say–how come the years to seem so swift,The days, the days so slow?”

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“Then say–how come the years to seem so swift,
The days, the days so slow?”