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    An old man sees two young lovers walking together at twilight and wishes them happiness. However, he knows that people are more focused on the future and past rather than fully experiencing happiness in the present moment. While poems often warn about having too much happiness, true happiness is hard to realize when one is too focused on what is to come or has already been.

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    An old man sees two young lovers walking together at twilight and wishes them happiness. However, he knows that people are more focused on the future and past rather than fully experiencing happiness in the present moment. While poems often warn about having too much happiness, true happiness is hard to realize when one is too focused on what is to come or has already been.

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    An old man sees two young lovers walking together at twilight and wishes them happiness. However, he knows that people are more focused on the future and past rather than fully experiencing happiness in the present moment. While poems often warn about having too much happiness, true happiness is hard to realize when one is too focused on what is to come or has already been.

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    5 Robert Frost

    Carpe Diem

    Age saw two quiet children


    Go loving by at twilight,
    He knew not whether homeward,
    10 Or outward from the village,
    Or (chimes were ringing) churchward,
    He waited, (they were strangers)
    Till they were out of hearing
    To bid them both be happy.
    15 "Be happy, happy, happy,
    And seize the day of pleasure."
    The age-long theme is Age's.
    'Twas Age imposed on poems
    Their gather-roses burden
    20 To warn against the danger
    That overtaken lovers
    From being overflooded
    With happiness should have it.
    And yet not know they have it.
    25 But bid life seize the present?
    It lives less in the present
    Than in the future always,
    And less in both together
    Than in the past. The present
    30 Is too much for the senses,
    Too crowding, too confusing-
    Too present to imagine.

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