You are! What secret do you know

To keep you young?

Age comes with keen and accurate advance

Against youth’s lightly handled lance.

Age is an ancient despot that has wrung

All hearts.”... My answer was the song forever sung:

“This that I need to know I know—

Onpouring and perpetual immigrants,

We join a fellowship beyond America

Yet in America....

Beyond the touch of age, my Celia,

In you, in me, in everyone, we join God’s growing mind.

For in no separate place or time, or soul, we find

Our meaning. In one mingled soul reside

All times and places. On a tide

Of mist and azure air

We journey toward that soul, through circumstance,

Until at last we fully care and dare

To make within ourselves divinity.”

“And what of all the others,” Celia said,

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