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(9 hours ago)busker Wrote: A modest lifeI would omit the article in "a long afternoon"
I have suffered, not greatly,
but modest little things
only. Not born during a raid,
orphaned at an early age,
nor grown to be cut down too soon,
but a life of a long afternoon,
at its end, tea in a set
laid out for friends not yet
fallen into a swoon,
and at night, a dog
whose face is in the moon.
Lovely little poem, really precise