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every tatter in its mortal dress

every tatter in its mortal dress - Brownsville General Hospital
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clasp its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.

~William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium
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Photograph taken at Setting Sun Retirement Home (a pseudonym) by Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America.


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