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January 28th, 2017

Snail mail

8:40 AM

There's a reason it's called snail mail! Australia Post forced to apologise it delivers a postcard 50 YEARS late

Now that's snail mail! Woman receives birthday card sealed with a kiss from her dead mother 45 YEARS late

The last post! First World War soldier's card home is finally delivered... 94 years late

(

ezhiuke--and you thought your mail was late...;))

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From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—
Then—in my childhood—in the dawn
Of a most stormy life—was drawn
From ev’ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still—
From the torrent, or the fountain—
From the red cliff of the mountain—
From the sun that ’round me roll’d
In its autumn tint of gold—
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass’d me flying by—
From the thunder, and the storm—
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view—

(thanks to

blackqueen)