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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical disguise.

Gwendolyn Brooks

1949

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Brooks, Gwendolyn. "Exhaust the Little Moment." Annie Allen. Harper & Brothers, 1949.

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