Ernest Vincent Wright Wotton

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    And mother almost always sighs,
    When father carves the duck.
    Then all of us prepare to rise,
    And hold our bibs before our eyes,
    And be prepared for some surprise,
    When father carves the duck.
    —Ernest Vincent Wright Wotton (1872–1939)

    All your lovely words are spoken.
    Once the ivory box is broken,
    Beats the golden bird no more.
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
    —Frank Lloyd Wright (1869–1959)

    You common people of the skies,
    What are you when the moon doth rise?
    —Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)