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Adelaide Crapsey, Verse by Adelaide Crapsey Quotes: But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. The strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!
         

But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. The strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!


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But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. The strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!
         



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