Agafya
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Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon
Agafya is plain, old-fashioned good --
Giving, caring, loving, generous, kind.
A person doesn't get that way by chance.
Fortune isn't merely circumstance.
Years are fields on which the play of mind
And will create what character one would.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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