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To Peg and all my family, as always.
Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice.
Robert Frost-Fire and Ice
The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armor against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings.
James Shirley
Contention of Ajax and Ulysses (1659)