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As everyone seems to be footnoting their work at the moment, I offer the following: While there is no precise span of years which can be assigned to line four, there is a _terminus ad quem_ of 45. Which makes (though I hadn't intended this) a nice five year jump between line and line. [It would obviously have been much nicer had someone other than the compositor pointed this out, but ah, then, were life perfect, none of us would be willing ever to die.] RH > MID LIFE IDENTITY CRISIS QUATRAIN ... > > En l'an de mon trentiesme aage, > Nel mezzo del camin di nostra vita -- > If men at forty will be painting lakes, > Why should the aged eagle stretch his wings? > > ... from The Tomb of a Second Life. > > Robin