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And posterity? subsequent & later? The expost facto of all presence? I attend to that afterwhich Sequenced to beyond past forever.
All that is old, cobwebbed & reliced, Antique, traditional, primeval & worn, Outmoded, disused, has-been & old hat, Old as the hills; like dodos outmoded:
Simultaneous - in pace with the after, As one in concert & chorus 'una voce': I keep in tempo with the nowness Concurrent in the same breath as yore.
All that is youth, tender, and callow, Childlike, puerile, girlish & awkward, Cherub, doll-like, minor and new-born In May-morn life & salad day summer:
And time out of mind - auld lang syne When mortals were a figment of fancy: Days beyond recall when I was young; When all was green and newly sprung -
All that is boy, laddie, and garcon, Girlie and missy, maiden and gal, Infant and baby, bambino and bairn, Chunk of a kid, and unspoiled child:
I remember - I am sumpast of all Time: This day and hour - the here and now; The hereunto; the as yet; the already; The thus-far-today but not the man'ana.
All that is adult, woman, and man, Darby and Joan, dame and old duffer, Crone and hag, heffer and gammer, Senior and dean, elder and doyen ...
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