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Allingham

William Allingham
1824-1889

 
"Writing"

 

A man who keeps a diary, pays
Due toll to many tedious days;
But life becomes eventful – then
His busy hand forgets the pen.
Most books, indeed, are records less
Of fulness than of emptiness.

 
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