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EPITAPH FOR ANY NEW YORKER by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: I, WHO ALL MY LIFE HAD HURRIED
Last Line: "TAKE YOUR ETERNITY,"" HE SAID."
Subject(s): NEW YORK CITY; PATIENCE; MANHATTAN; NEW YORK, NEW YORK; THE BIG APPLE;
I, who all my life had hurried,
Came to Peter's crowded gate;
And, as usual, was worried,
Fearing that I might be late.
So, when I began to jostle
(I forgot that I was dead)
Patient smiled the old Apostle:
"Take your Eternity," he said.



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