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A Very Early Riser

by Gerald Massey

Gerald Massey

AT the Last Day while all the rest
Are soundly sleeping underground,
He will be up clean-shaved and dressed
An hour before the Trumpets sound.




Quotes of the Day

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butchers the poets equal there

• Emile M. Cioran



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