“Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.”

—  Conrad Aiken

Variant: Separate we come, and separate we go, and this be it known, is all that we know.
Source: Self written obituary in verse, The New York Herald Tribune (1969), cited in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) edited by Larry Chang, p. 664

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American novelist and poet 1889–1973

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