Inscriptions

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Title:     Inscriptions
Author: James Russell Lowell [More Titles by Lowell]

FOR A BELL AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

I call as fly the irrevocable hours,
Futile as air or strong as fate to make
Your lives of sand or granite; awful powers,
Even as men choose, they either give or take.

[The end]
James Russell Lowell's poem: Inscriptions

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