Grand Climacteric

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    An old French sentence says, “God works in moments,”M”En peu d’heure Dieu labeure.” We ask for long life, but ‘t is deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Though her years were waning,
    Her climacteric teased her like her teens.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)