Here, Cyprian, is my jeweled looking-glass,
My final gift to bind my final vow:
I cannot see myself as I once was;
I would not see myself as I am now.
— Aline Murray Kilmer
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Pseudo-Plato, in the Greek Anthology, bk. 6, no. 1
More quotes by Aline Murray Kilmer
Deborah danced, when she was two,
As buttercups and daffodils do;
Spirited, frail, naïvely bold,
Her hair a ruffled crest of gold.
For life seems only a shuddering breath,
A smothered, desperate cry,
And things have a terrible permanence
When people die.
When people inquire I always just state:
"I have four nice children and hope to have eight."
If I live till my fighting days are done
I must fasten my armour on my eldest son.
I’m sorry you are wiser,
I’m sorry you are taller;
I liked you better foolish,
And I liked you better smaller.
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