William Thompson Russell

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    “I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years—
    My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
    My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
    Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

    “Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)