| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 39373 |
| QUOTATION: | Always the same old story Father Time and Mother Earth, A marriage on the rocks. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Merrill (b. 1926), U.S. poet. The Broken Home (l. 4042). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press. |
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