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We outgrow love like other things and put it in the drawer, Till it an antique fashion shows Like costumes grandsires wore. === You could say thank you for my publishing some of your verse. -For that, sir, you have more than my thanks. You have my gratitude. But, sir... you have altered some of my punctuation. Good Lord. What's a hyphen here or a semi-colon there? - To many, nothing. But, to me, the alteration of my punctuation marks is very hard to endure. Then I apologise. I was merely trying to make your meaning clearer to my readers. -Clarity is one thing, sir, obviousness quite another. The only person qualified to interfere with the poet's work is the poet herself. From anyone else, it feels like an attack. === Admiration always masks envy. -What does envy mask? Oh, that masks admiration.