“None knows the day that friends must part
None knows how near is sorrow;
If there be laughter in your heart
Don't hold it for tomorrow.”

— Edgar Guest

Source: A Heap o' Livin' (1916), A Song, opening lines, p. 34.

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American writer 1881–1959

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